Grommets waiting time at Women's and Children's 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 North Adelaide area of South Australia, 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: 85 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 219 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.8%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 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 45 days in 2016–17 to 85 days in 2024–25 — up 89% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Adelaide Hospital, about 2 km away, at 63 days. Here, 1.8% 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
Women's and Children's Hospital	85 days	1.8%	219 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	2.2%	580 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 2 km away63 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 7 km away32 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 12 km away66 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 13 km away72 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 19 km away113 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 38 km away44 days
Renmark Paringa District HospitalSA · about 213 km away30 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	Women's and Children's Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	45	46	58
2017–18	61	67	70
2018–19	40	54	68
2019–20	63	56	73
2020–21	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	93
2021–22	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	79
2022–23	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	84
2023–24	90	85	94
2024–25	85	78	90

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

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