Grommets waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

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 Westmead 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: 95 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 135 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 9.6%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 37 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 74 days in 2016–17 to 95 days in 2024–25 — up 28% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Auburn Hospital, about 8 km away, at 86 days. Here, 9.6% 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
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	95 days	9.6%	135 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.

Auburn HospitalNSW · about 8 km away86 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away83 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away167 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 16 km away65 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 16 km away265 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 18 km away144 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 20 km away63 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 23 km away91 days

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

How the wait has changed

The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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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	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	74	74	58
2017–18	48	71	70
2018–19	80	84	68
2019–20	89	86	73
2020–21	64	98	93
2021–22	70	80	79
2022–23	146	90	84
2023–24	105	107	94
2024–25	95	128	90

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

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