Grommets waiting time at Sutherland Hospital

The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Caringbah area of New South Wales was 102 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: 102 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 21 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 41 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 71 days in 2016–17 to 102 days in 2024–25 — up 44% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St George Hospital NSW, about 8 km away, at 91 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
Sutherland Hospital	102 days	not published	21 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

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 90 days marks the national median.

St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 8 km away91 days
Canterbury HospitalNSW · about 13 km away265 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 14 km away167 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 17 km away196 days
Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 18 km away137 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 18 km away63 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 21 km away86 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 21 km away83 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	Sutherland Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	71	74	58
2017–18	104	71	70
2018–19	166	84	68
2019–20	131	86	73
2020–21	247	98	93
2021–22	220	80	79
2022–23	101	90	84
2023–24	321	107	94
2024–25	102	128	90

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

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