Heart bypass surgery waiting time at Wollongong Hospital
Half of patients at Wollongong Hospital waited 1 day 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 Wollongong 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
- 1 day2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 172 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 9 days in 2021–22 to 1 day in 2024–25 — down 89% — while the national median stayed at 19 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.1%.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wollongong Hospital | 1 day | 0.0% | 172 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.
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 56 km away: 7 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 56 km away: 74 days
Prince of Wales Hospital, NSW · about 65 km away: 20 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW · about 66 km away: 19 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst], NSW · about 68 km away: 9 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 70 km away: 36 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 183 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
- Wollongong Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Wollongong Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011–12 | not reported for this period | 23 | 16 |
| 2012–13 | not reported for this period | 28 | 16 |
| 2013–14 | not reported for this period | 25 | 18 |
| 2014–15 | not reported for this period | 27 | 14 |
| 2015–16 | not reported for this period | 27 | 13 |
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | 27 | 13 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | 32 | 17 |
| 2018–19 | not reported for this period | 34 | 17 |
| 2019–20 | not published | 25 | 18 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | 26 | 18 |
| 2021–22 | 9 | 18 | 19 |
| 2022–23 | 8 | 17 | 19 |
| 2023–24 | 8 | 18 | 19 |
| 2024–25 | 1 | 19 | 19 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Wollongong Hospital · Heart bypass surgery across Australia · Heart bypass surgery in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales