Grommets waiting time at Kununurra Hospital
Half of patients at Kununurra Hospital waited 67 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 Kununurra area of Western 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
- 67 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 10 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 19 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 67 days in 2024–25 — up 168% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Derby Hospital, about 570 km away, at 3 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kununurra Hospital | 67 days | not published | 10 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
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.
Derby Hospital, WA · about 570 km away: 3 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Kununurra Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Kununurra Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 25 | 60 | 58 |
| 2017–18 | 71 | 87 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | 43 | 87 | 68 |
| 2019–20 | 90 | 85 | 73 |
| 2020–21 | 41 | 98 | 93 |
| 2021–22 | 37 | 86 | 79 |
| 2022–23 | 42 | 83 | 84 |
| 2023–24 | 12 | 91 | 94 |
| 2024–25 | 67 | 91 | 90 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Kununurra Hospital · Grommets across Australia · Grommets in Western Australia · All surgery waits in Western Australia