Surgery Waits

Grommets waiting times in Western Australia

The median wait for grommets in Western Australia public hospitals was 91 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.

15 public hospitals in Western Australia reported grommets in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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5 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 Western Australia 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 Derby Hospital 3 days not published 18 surgeries
2 Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital 21 days not published 10 surgeries
3 Joondalup Health Campus (Public) 39 days not published 41 surgeries
4 Geraldton Hospital 56 days not published 19 surgeries
5 Kununurra Hospital 67 days not published 10 surgeries
6 Rockingham General Hospital 88 days 0.0% 98 surgeries
7 Albany Hospital 91 days not published 11 surgeries
8 Perth Children's Hospital 95 days 6.7% 327 surgeries
9 Fiona Stanley Hospital 108 days not published 28 surgeries
10 Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital 291 days not published 33 surgeries
unranked Broome Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Esperance Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Fremantle Hospital and Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Katanning Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Osborne Park Hospital not published not published not published
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The median wait for grommets in Western Australia public hospitals was 91 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Grommets waiting times in Western Australia", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/grommets/wa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

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

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Western Australia.