Grommets waiting time at Renmark Paringa District Hospital

The median wait for grommets — published by the source as "Pressure equalising tubes (grommets) - insertion of" — at this public hospital in the Renmark area of South Australia was 30 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: 30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 12 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 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 24 days in 2023–24 to 30 days in 2024–25 — up 25% — while the national median fell from 94 days to 90 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Renmark Paringa District Hospital	30 days	not published	12 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	78 days	2.2%	580 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.

Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 189 km away44 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 201 km away113 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 202 km away66 days
Women's and Children's HospitalSA · about 213 km away85 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 215 km away63 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 218 km away32 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 221 km away72 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Renmark Paringa District Hospital
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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	Renmark Paringa District Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	46	58
2017–18	not reported for this period	67	70
2018–19	not reported for this period	54	68
2019–20	not reported for this period	56	73
2020–21	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	93
2021–22	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	79
2022–23	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	84
2023–24	24	85	94
2024–25	30	78	90

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

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