Grommets waiting time at Wagga Wagga 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 Turvey Park 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: 357 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 114 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 31.6%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 64 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 318 days in 2016–17 to 357 days in 2024–25 — up 12% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Cowra Health Service, about 188 km away, at 19 days. Here, 31.6% 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
Wagga Wagga Hospital	357 days	31.6%	114 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	128 days	10.5%	1428 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.

Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 188 km away19 days
Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 256 km away74 days
Wollongong HospitalNSW · about 331 km away93 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 336 km away273 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 341 km away70 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 343 km away66 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 351 km away76 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 353 km away83 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Wagga Wagga Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	318	74	58
2017–18	135	71	70
2018–19	76	84	68
2019–20	97	86	73
2020–21	68	98	93
2021–22	25	80	79
2022–23	77	90	84
2023–24	215	107	94
2024–25	357	128	90

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

All surgery at Wagga Wagga Hospital · Grommets across Australia · Grommets in New South Wales