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Heart bypass surgery waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for heart bypass surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 19 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 19 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Coronary artery bypass grafting".

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

11 public hospitals in New South Wales reported heart bypass surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

3 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 19 days marks the national median.

Coronary artery bypass grafting 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 Wollongong Hospital 1 day 0.0% 172 surgeries
2 St George Hospital NSW 7 days not published 36 surgeries
3 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 9 days 0.0% 131 surgeries
4 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 19 days 0.0% 85 surgeries
5 Prince of Wales Hospital 20 days 0.0% 83 surgeries
6 John Hunter Hospital 35 days 0.0% 94 surgeries
7 Westmead Hospital 36 days 0.0% 193 surgeries
8 Liverpool Hospital 74 days 0.0% 120 surgeries
unranked Grafton Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Lismore Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Royal North Shore Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Randwick.

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The median wait for heart bypass surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 19 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Heart bypass surgery waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/coronary-artery-bypass-grafting/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/coronary-artery-bypass-grafting/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.