Grommets waiting time at Prince of Wales Hospital

The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Randwick area of New South Wales was 196 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: 196 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 53 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sydney Children's Hospital, about 0 km away, at 137 days.

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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
Prince of Wales Hospital	196 days	not published	10 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.

Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 0 km away137 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 6 km away63 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 11 km away91 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 12 km away144 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away265 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 17 km away102 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 19 km away281 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 20 km away86 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	Prince of Wales Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	74	58
2017–18	not published	71	70
2018–19	not published	84	68
2019–20	not published	86	73
2020–21	not published	98	93
2021–22	not published	80	79
2022–23	not published	90	84
2023–24	not published	107	94
2024–25	196	128	90

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

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