Grommets waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]

The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Ballarat Central area of Victoria was 30 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: 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 40 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 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 47 days in 2016–17 to 30 days in 2024–25 — down 36% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]	30 days	not published	40 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	78 days	4.4%	1054 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.

Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 88 km away244 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 101 km away136 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 103 km away76 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 108 km away329 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 109 km away310 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 114 km away63 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 115 km away91 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 122 km away56 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	Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	47	68	58
2017–18	23	82	70
2018–19	22	50	68
2019–20	14	46	73
2020–21	not published	69	93
2021–22	36	58	79
2022–23	62	80	84
2023–24	24	94	94
2024–25	30	78	90

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

All surgery at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] · Grommets across Australia · Grommets in Victoria