Grommets waiting time at West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]

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 Warragul 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: 161 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 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 49 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 41 days in 2017–18 to 161 days in 2024–25 — up 293% — while the national median rose from 70 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon], about 48 km away, at 73 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
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]	161 days	not published	33 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.

Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 48 km away73 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 53 km away42 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 62 km away99 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 69 km away90 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 70 km away113 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 73 km away56 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 81 km away63 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 81 km away91 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	West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	68	58
2017–18	41	82	70
2018–19	38	50	68
2019–20	86	46	73
2020–21	14	69	93
2021–22	28	58	79
2022–23	39	80	84
2023–24	57	94	94
2024–25	161	78	90

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

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