Grommets waiting time at Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service
Half of patients at Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service waited 29 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 Mount Gambier 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
- 29 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 18 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 4 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 1 day in 2017–18 to 29 days in 2024–25 — up 2800% — while the national median rose from 70 days to 90 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service | 29 days | not published | 18 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 78 days | 2.2% | 580 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 78 days | 4.4% | 1054 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.
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], VIC · about 271 km away: 30 days
Sunshine Hospital, VIC · about 354 km away: 244 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville], VIC · about 366 km away: 136 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 368 km away: 72 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping], VIC · about 372 km away: 76 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 374 km away: 329 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg], VIC · about 376 km away: 310 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin], VIC · about 376 km away: 63 days
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.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 46 | 58 |
| 2017–18 | 1 | 67 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | 1 | 54 | 68 |
| 2019–20 | 11 | 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 | not published | 85 | 94 |
| 2024–25 | 29 | 78 | 90 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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