Surgery Waits

Coronary artery bypass grafting waiting time at St George Hospital NSW

The median wait for coronary artery bypass grafting at this public hospital in the Kogarah area of New South Wales was 7 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

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.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Coronary artery bypass grafting, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
St George Hospital NSW7 daysnot published36 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)19 days0.0%923 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)19 days0.1%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for coronary artery bypass grafting by financial year at St George Hospital NSW, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0193856752011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25St George Hospital NSW 7NSW 19Australia 19
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Coronary artery bypass grafting, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodSt George Hospital NSW (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12252316
2012–13302816
2013–14232518
2014–15202714
2015–16312713
2016–17452713
2017–18323217
2018–19353417
2019–20252518
2020–21712618
2021–22241819
2022–23171719
2023–2471819
2024–2571919

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

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