Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of, nationally and by state.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of in public hospitals was 90 days in 2024–25, from 3835 surgeries. 6.5% of people waited more than 365 days. 64 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

South Australia78 days
Victoria78 days
Tasmania81 days
Western Australia91 days
New South Wales128 days
Northern Territorynot published

Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	South Australia	78 days	2.2%	580 surgeries
1	Victoria	78 days	4.4%	1054 surgeries
3	Tasmania	81 days	5.0%	140 surgeries
4	Western Australia	91 days	5.4%	608 surgeries
5	New South Wales	128 days	10.5%	1428 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	25 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
SA
VIC
TAS

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	Australia (days)	SA (days)	VIC (days)	TAS (days)
2016–17	58	46	68	69
2017–18	70	67	82	64
2018–19	68	54	50	109
2019–20	73	56	46	149
2020–21	93	not published	69	93
2021–22	79	not published	58	80
2022–23	84	not published	80	not published
2023–24	94	85	94	88
2024–25	90	78	78	81

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.