Grommets waiting time at Maitland Hospital

The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Telarah area of New South Wales was 263 days in 2024–25.

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: 263 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 123 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 22.0%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 55 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 66 days in 2016–17 to 263 days in 2024–25 — up 298% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is John Hunter Hospital, about 26 km away, at 190 days. Here, 22.0% 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
Maitland Hospital	263 days	22.0%	123 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	128 days	10.5%	1428 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.

John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 26 km away190 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 34 km away305 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 79 km away101 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai HospitalNSW · about 116 km away65 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 117 km away281 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 126 km away144 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 130 km away95 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 134 km away63 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	Maitland Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	66	74	58
2017–18	93	71	70
2018–19	125	84	68
2019–20	113	86	73
2020–21	141	98	93
2021–22	189	80	79
2022–23	56	90	84
2023–24	138	107	94
2024–25	263	128	90

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

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