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Grommets waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for grommets in New South Wales public hospitals was 128 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 90 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of".

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

41 public hospitals in New South Wales reported grommets in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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13 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Cowra Health Service 19 days not published 17 surgeries
2 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 63 days not published 14 surgeries
3 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 65 days not published 24 surgeries
4 Nepean Hospital 66 days 0.9% 108 surgeries
5 Dubbo Hospital 70 days not published 17 surgeries
6 Orange Health Service 74 days not published 13 surgeries
7 Liverpool Hospital 83 days not published 20 surgeries
8 Tweed Valley Hospital 85 days 3.1% 65 surgeries
9 Auburn Hospital 86 days not published 39 surgeries
10 St George Hospital NSW 91 days not published 15 surgeries
11 Wollongong Hospital 93 days 5.1% 118 surgeries
12 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 95 days 9.6% 135 surgeries
13 Gosford Hospital 101 days 6.0% 117 surgeries
14 Sutherland Hospital 102 days not published 21 surgeries
15 Sydney Children's Hospital 137 days 14.6% 89 surgeries
16 Royal North Shore Hospital 144 days not published 27 surgeries
17 Lismore Base Hospital 156 days not published 12 surgeries
18 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 167 days not published 32 surgeries
19 Coffs Harbour Hospital 182 days 12.9% 62 surgeries
20 John Hunter Hospital 190 days not published 48 surgeries
21 Prince of Wales Hospital 196 days not published 10 surgeries
22 Maitland Hospital 263 days 22.0% 123 surgeries
23 Canterbury Hospital 265 days not published 17 surgeries
24 Campbelltown Hospital 273 days not published 25 surgeries
25 Northern Beaches Hospital 281 days not published 47 surgeries
26 Belmont Hospital 305 days not published 10 surgeries
27 Tamworth Hospital 321 days not published 28 surgeries
28 Wagga Wagga Hospital 357 days 31.6% 114 surgeries
unranked Bathurst Base Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Broken Hill Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Concord Repatriation Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Griffith Base Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Hawkesbury Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Kurri Kurri Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Lachlan Health Service - Forbes not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Moree Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Mudgee Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Murwillumbah District Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Port Macquarie Base Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published not published
unranked Westmead Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Liverpool · near Randwick · near St Leonards.

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The median wait for grommets in New South Wales public hospitals was 128 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Grommets waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/nsw/), 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.

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