Surgery Waits

Grommets near Heidelberg

Near Heidelberg, Box Hill Hospital, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for grommets in 2024–25: 91 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

3 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for grommets, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. 1 hospital sits just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and is included because a referral can cross the line. 1 children's hospital nearby is left out, because it treats only children. The source publishes this surgery as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of".

Hospitals in or near Heidelberg

Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of at public hospitals in or near Heidelberg, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Where
1 Box Hill Hospital 91 days not published Box Hill, VIC. Outside this area, about 8 km from Austin Hospital [Heidelberg].
2 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 310 days not published Heidelberg, VIC. In this area.
3 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 329 days not published Bellfield, VIC. In this area.

This area covers Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] and Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Austin Health (Vic)". Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.

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Near Heidelberg, Box Hill Hospital, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for grommets in 2024–25: 91 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Grommets near Heidelberg: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/near/heidelberg/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/near/heidelberg/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

See every Victoria hospital for grommets, or every hospital in Austin Health.