Grommets waiting time at Tamworth 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 North Tamworth area of New South Wales, 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: 321 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 28 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 62 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 135 days in 2019–20 to 321 days in 2024–25 — up 138% — while the national median rose from 73 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maitland Hospital, about 193 km away, at 263 days.

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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
Tamworth Hospital	321 days	not published	28 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	128 days	10.5%	1428 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.

Maitland HospitalNSW · about 193 km away263 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 218 km away190 days
Coffs Harbour HospitalNSW · about 224 km away182 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 227 km away305 days

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

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	Tamworth Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	74	58
2017–18	not reported for this period	71	70
2018–19	not published	84	68
2019–20	135	86	73
2020–21	not published	98	93
2021–22	58	80	79
2022–23	55	90	84
2023–24	86	107	94
2024–25	321	128	90

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

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