Grommets waiting time at Sunshine Hospital

The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Sunshine North area of Victoria was 244 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: 244 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 66 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 13.6%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 54 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 69 days in 2016–17 to 244 days in 2024–25 — up 254% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville], about 12 km away, at 136 days. Here, 13.6% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 6.5%.

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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
Sunshine Hospital	244 days	13.6%	66 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.

Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 12 km away136 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 20 km away329 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 21 km away76 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 21 km away310 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 27 km away91 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 28 km away63 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 35 km away56 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 46 km away99 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	Sunshine Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	69	68	58
2017–18	86	82	70
2018–19	85	50	68
2019–20	82	46	73
2020–21	45	69	93
2021–22	76	58	79
2022–23	31	80	84
2023–24	102	94	94
2024–25	244	78	90

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

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