Aortic aneurysm repair waiting time at Port Macquarie Base Hospital
Half of patients at Port Macquarie Base Hospital waited 40 days or less for aortic aneurysm repair in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Abdominal or thoracic aortic aneurysm - repair/replacement". This public hospital is in the Port Macquarie area of New South Wales.
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
- 40 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 14 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 24 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 11 days in 2016–17 to 40 days in 2024–25 — up 264% — while the national median rose from 21 days to 24 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gosford Hospital, about 262 km away, at 33 days.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Abdominal or thoracic aortic aneurysm - repair/replacement" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Port Macquarie Base Hospital | 40 days | not published | 14 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 30 days | 0.0% | 205 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 26 days | 2.4% | 254 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 24 days | 0.8% | 862 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 24 days marks the national median.
Gosford Hospital, NSW · about 262 km away: 33 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 313 km away: 45 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 316 km away: 16 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 324 km away: 20 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 327 km away: 71 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 329 km away: 63 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 379 km away: 3 days
Gold Coast University Hospital, QLD · about 391 km away: 28 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Port Macquarie Base Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Port Macquarie Base Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 11 | 22 | 21 |
| 2017–18 | 2 | 21 | 22 |
| 2018–19 | 9 | 19 | 22 |
| 2019–20 | 2 | 19 | 21 |
| 2020–21 | 7 | 19 | 22 |
| 2021–22 | 14 | 22 | 23 |
| 2022–23 | 27 | 23 | 25 |
| 2023–24 | 25 | 27 | 27 |
| 2024–25 | 40 | 30 | 24 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Port Macquarie Base Hospital · Aortic aneurysm repair across Australia · Aortic aneurysm repair in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales