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Carotid artery plaque removal waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for carotid artery plaque removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 23 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 20 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Carotid endarterectomy".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

21 public hospitals in New South Wales reported carotid artery plaque removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Carotid endarterectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

10 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 20 days marks the national median.

Carotid endarterectomy in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Westmead Hospital 16 days not published 34 surgeries
2 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 20 days not published 39 surgeries
3 Wollongong Hospital 21 days not published 33 surgeries
4 Coffs Harbour Hospital 22 days not published 15 surgeries
4 Gosford Hospital 22 days not published 34 surgeries
4 Lismore Base Hospital 22 days not published 33 surgeries
7 Wagga Wagga Hospital 23 days not published 18 surgeries
8 John Hunter Hospital 31 days not published 28 surgeries
9 Nepean Hospital 45 days not published 18 surgeries
10 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 48 days not published 28 surgeries
11 Concord Repatriation Hospital 50 days not published 15 surgeries
unranked Blacktown Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Liverpool Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Northern Beaches Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Prince of Wales Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Royal North Shore Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked St George Hospital NSW not published not published not published
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Sutherland Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Wyong Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown.

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The median wait for carotid artery plaque removal in New South Wales public hospitals was 23 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Carotid artery plaque removal waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/carotid-endarterectomy/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/carotid-endarterectomy/nsw/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in New South Wales.