Grommets waiting time at St George Hospital NSW
The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Kogarah area of New South Wales was 91 days in 2024–25.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 91 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 15 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 33 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 41 days in 2023–24 to 91 days in 2024–25 — up 122% — while the national median fell from 94 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, about 10 km away, at 63 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| St George Hospital NSW | 91 days | not published | 15 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 128 days | 10.5% | 1428 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 90 days | 6.5% | 3835 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- St George Hospital NSW
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | St George Hospital NSW (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 74 | 58 |
| 2017–18 | not published | 71 | 70 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 84 | 68 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 86 | 73 |
| 2020–21 | not published | 98 | 93 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 80 | 79 |
| 2022–23 | not published | 90 | 84 |
| 2023–24 | 41 | 107 | 94 |
| 2024–25 | 91 | 128 | 90 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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