Grommets waiting time at The Northern Hospital [Epping]

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 Lalor area of Victoria, 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: 76 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 90 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 25 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 70 days in 2016–17 to 76 days in 2024–25 — up 9% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin], about 30 km away, at 63 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
The Northern Hospital [Epping]	76 days	0.0%	90 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.

Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 12 km away329 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 12 km away310 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 17 km away136 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 20 km away91 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 21 km away244 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 30 km away63 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 33 km away56 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 38 km away99 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	The Northern Hospital [Epping] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	70	68	58
2017–18	77	82	70
2018–19	30	50	68
2019–20	60	46	73
2020–21	139	69	93
2021–22	not published	58	79
2022–23	205	80	84
2023–24	57	94	94
2024–25	76	78	90

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

All surgery at The Northern Hospital [Epping] · Grommets across Australia · Grommets in Victoria