Surgery Waits

Grommets waiting time at North West Regional Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Park Grove area of Tasmania, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

The source did not publish a median wait for this surgery at this hospital in 2024–25. Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator. The hospital is shown here unranked rather than ranked on a number that does not exist.

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Surgeries completed
8 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.

This hospital is not ranked for this surgery.

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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
North West Regional Hospitalnot publishednot published8 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)81 days5.0%140 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)90 days6.5%3835 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

North West Regional Hospital did not publish a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, so there is no list of nearer alternatives to compare it against.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of by financial year at North West Regional Hospital, compared with Tasmania and Australiadays038751131502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25TAS 81Australia 90
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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 periodNorth West Regional Hospital (days)TAS (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period6958
2017–18not reported for this period6470
2018–19not published10968
2019–20not reported for this period14973
2020–21not reported for this period9393
2021–22not reported for this period8079
2022–23not reported for this periodnot published84
2023–24not published8894
2024–25not published8190

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