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title: "Grommets near St Leonards"
description: "Public hospitals in or near St Leonards ranked by median wait for grommets, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 63 days."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/near/st-leonards/"
---

# Grommets near St Leonards

Near St Leonards, [Royal Prince Alfred Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-prince-alfred-hospital/grommets/), just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for grommets in 2024–25: **63 days** (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

5 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. 2 hospitals sit just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and are included because a referral can cross the line. 2 children's hospitals nearby are left out, because they treat only children. The source publishes this surgery as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of".

## Hospitals in or near St Leonards

Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of at public hospitals in or near St Leonards, 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 | [Royal Prince Alfred Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-prince-alfred-hospital/grommets/) | 63 days | not published | Camperdown, NSW. Outside this area, about 8 km from Royal North Shore Hospital. |
| 2 | [Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/hornsby-ku-ring-gai-hospital/grommets/) | 65 days | not published | Waitara, NSW. In this area. |
| 3 | [Royal North Shore Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/royal-north-shore-hospital/grommets/) | 144 days | not published | St Leonards, NSW. In this area. |
| 4 | [Prince of Wales Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/prince-of-wales-hospital/grommets/) | 196 days | not published | Randwick, NSW. Outside this area, about 12 km from Royal North Shore Hospital. |
| 5 | [Northern Beaches Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/northern-beaches-hospital/grommets/) | 281 days | not published | Frenchs Forest, NSW. In this area. |

This area covers Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Mona Vale Hospital, Northern Beaches Hospital, Royal North Shore Hospital and Ryde Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Northern Sydney". 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 St Leonards, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for grommets in 2024–25: 63 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Grommets near St Leonards: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/near/st-leonards/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/near/st-leonards/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/near/st-leonards/)), 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 New South Wales hospital for grommets](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/nsw/), or every hospital in [Northern Sydney](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/northern-sydney/).

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

**In an emergency call 000.**

Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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