Grommets waiting time at Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service

The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Mount Gambier area of South Australia was 29 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: 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of, 2024–25.
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 away30 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 354 km away244 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 366 km away136 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 368 km away72 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 372 km away76 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 374 km away329 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 376 km away310 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 376 km away63 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.

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	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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