Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of waiting time at Royal Hobart Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of at this public hospital, 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: 77 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 99 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 7.1%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 26 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Royal Hobart Hospital	77 days	7.1%	99 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	81 days	5.0%	140 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	78 days	4.4%	1054 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.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 160 km away73 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 523 km away73 days
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 537 km away161 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 557 km away90 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 558 km away113 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 563 km away42 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 580 km away99 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 581 km away56 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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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	Royal Hobart Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	78	69	58
2017–18	78	64	70
2018–19	111	109	68
2019–20	156	149	73
2020–21	127	93	93
2021–22	79	80	79
2022–23	76	not published	84
2023–24	102	88	94
2024–25	77	81	90

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

All surgery at Royal Hobart Hospital · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of across Australia · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of in Tasmania