Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of waiting time at Wagga Wagga 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: 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.

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. 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	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

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 Wagga Wagga Hospital · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of across Australia · Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of in New South Wales