Heart bypass surgery waiting time at St George Hospital NSW
Half of patients at St George Hospital NSW waited 7 days or less for heart bypass surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Coronary artery bypass grafting". This public hospital is in the Kogarah 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
- 7 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 36 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 3 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 25 days in 2011–12 to 7 days in 2024–25 — down 72% — while the national median rose from 16 days to 19 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wollongong Hospital, about 56 km away, at 1 day.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Coronary artery bypass grafting" 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St George Hospital NSW | 7 days | not published | 36 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 19 days | 0.0% | 923 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 19 days | 0.1% | 2719 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 19 days marks the national median.
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 10 km away: 19 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 11 km away: 20 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 13 km away: 9 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 74 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 23 km away: 36 days
Wollongong Hospital, NSW · about 56 km away: 1 day
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 127 km away: 35 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- St George Hospital NSW
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | St George Hospital NSW (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | 25 | 23 | 16 |
| 2012–13 | 30 | 28 | 16 |
| 2013–14 | 23 | 25 | 18 |
| 2014–15 | 20 | 27 | 14 |
| 2015–16 | 31 | 27 | 13 |
| 2016–17 | 45 | 27 | 13 |
| 2017–18 | 32 | 32 | 17 |
| 2018–19 | 35 | 34 | 17 |
| 2019–20 | 25 | 25 | 18 |
| 2020–21 | 71 | 26 | 18 |
| 2021–22 | 24 | 18 | 19 |
| 2022–23 | 17 | 17 | 19 |
| 2023–24 | 7 | 18 | 19 |
| 2024–25 | 7 | 19 | 19 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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