Grommets waiting time at Gawler Health Service
Half of patients at Gawler Health Service waited 44 days or less for grommets in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of". This public hospital is in the Gawler area of South Australia.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 44 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 13 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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 152 days in 2023–24 to 44 days in 2024–25 — down 71% — while the national median fell from 94 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, about 38 km away, at 32 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gawler Health Service | 44 days | not published | 13 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.
Lyell McEwin Hospital, SA · about 19 km away: 113 days
Modbury Hospital, SA · about 27 km away: 66 days
Women's and Children's Hospital, SA · about 38 km away: 85 days
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 38 km away: 32 days
Royal Adelaide Hospital, SA · about 39 km away: 63 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 51 km away: 72 days
Renmark Paringa District Hospital, SA · about 189 km away: 30 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Gawler Health Service
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Gawler Health Service (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 46 | 58 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 67 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 54 | 68 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | 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 | 152 | 85 | 94 |
| 2024–25 | 44 | 78 | 90 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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