Grommets waiting time at Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]

The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Traralgon area of Victoria was 73 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: 73 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 45 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 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 18 days in 2016–17 to 73 days in 2024–25 — up 306% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Casey Hospital, about 100 km away, at 42 days.

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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
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]	73 days	not published	45 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.

West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 48 km away161 days
Casey HospitalVIC · about 100 km away42 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 107 km away99 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 117 km away90 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 118 km away113 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 119 km away56 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 127 km away91 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 128 km away63 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	Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	18	68	58
2017–18	39	82	70
2018–19	34	50	68
2019–20	37	46	73
2020–21	42	69	93
2021–22	44	58	79
2022–23	62	80	84
2023–24	94	94	94
2024–25	73	78	90

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

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