Grommets waiting time at Rockingham General Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for grommets — published by the source as “Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of” — at this public hospital in the Cooloongup area of Western Australia, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 88 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 98 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 64 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 31 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 133 days in 2016–17 to 88 days in 2024–25 — down 34% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 36 km away, at 21 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.5%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Rockingham General Hospital	88 days	0.0%	98 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	91 days	5.4%	608 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	90 days	6.5%	3835 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 26 km away108 days
Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial HospitalWA · about 29 km away291 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 36 km away95 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 36 km away21 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 61 km away39 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Rockingham General Hospital
WA
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Rockingham General Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	133	60	58
2017–18	not published	87	70
2018–19	not published	87	68
2019–20	106	85	73
2020–21	42	98	93
2021–22	55	86	79
2022–23	81	83	84
2023–24	65	91	94
2024–25	88	91	90

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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