Grommets waiting time at Geraldton Hospital
The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Beachlands area of Western Australia was 56 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 56 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 19 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 11 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 25 days in 2016–17 to 56 days in 2024–25 — up 124% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Joondalup Health Campus (Public), about 347 km away, at 39 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Geraldton Hospital | 56 days | not published | 19 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 91 days | 5.4% | 608 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 90 days | 6.5% | 3835 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
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.
How the wait has changed
- Geraldton Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Geraldton Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 25 | 60 | 58 |
| 2017–18 | 49 | 87 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | 60 | 87 | 68 |
| 2019–20 | 59 | 85 | 73 |
| 2020–21 | 180 | 98 | 93 |
| 2021–22 | 167 | 86 | 79 |
| 2022–23 | 166 | 83 | 84 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 91 | 94 |
| 2024–25 | 56 | 91 | 90 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Geraldton Hospital · Grommets across Australia · Grommets in Western Australia