Surgery Waits

Heart valve replacement waiting time at The Canberra Hospital

The median wait for heart valve replacement at this public hospital in the Garran area of Australian Capital Territory was 30 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
30 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
18 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 25 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 risen from 14 days in 2016–17 to 30 days in 2024–25 — up 114% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wollongong Hospital, about 192 km away, at 1 day.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Heart valve 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Heart valve replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
The Canberra Hospital30 daysnot published18 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published18 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)22 days0.0%574 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)33 days0.9%2205 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 33 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for heart valve replacement by financial year at The Canberra Hospital, compared with Australian Capital Territory and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25The Canberra Hospital 30Australia 33
  • The Canberra Hospital
  • ACT
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Heart valve replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodThe Canberra Hospital (days)ACT (days)Australia (days)
2016–1714not published25
2017–187not published29
2018–1925not published28
2019–205not published26
2020–213not published27
2021–2210not published28
2022–2328not published29
2023–2423not published30
2024–2530not published33

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

All surgery at The Canberra Hospital · Heart valve replacement across Australia · Heart valve replacement in Australian Capital Territory