Grommets waiting time at Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]

The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Bentleigh East area of Victoria was 63 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: 63 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 30 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 13 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 66 days in 2016–17 to 63 days in 2024–25 — down 5% — while the national median rose from 58 days to 90 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], about 8 km away, at 56 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
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]	63 days	not published	30 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.

Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 8 km away56 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away91 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 17 km away136 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 18 km away310 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 18 km away329 days
Angliss HospitalVIC · about 22 km away99 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 26 km away113 days
Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 27 km away90 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	Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	66	68	58
2017–18	40	82	70
2018–19	43	50	68
2019–20	81	46	73
2020–21	127	69	93
2021–22	133	58	79
2022–23	53	80	84
2023–24	82	94	94
2024–25	63	78	90

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

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