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Heart valve replacement waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for heart valve replacement in New South Wales public hospitals was 22 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 33 days.

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

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

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.

2 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 33 days marks the national median.

Heart valve replacement 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 not published 28 surgeries
2 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 7 days 0.0% 104 surgeries
3 St George Hospital NSW 10 days not published 29 surgeries
4 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 12 days 0.0% 102 surgeries
5 Prince of Wales Hospital 34 days not published 33 surgeries
6 John Hunter Hospital 37 days 0.0% 104 surgeries
7 Liverpool Hospital 54 days 0.0% 59 surgeries
8 Westmead Hospital 72 days 0.0% 112 surgeries
unranked Kempsey District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Royal North Shore Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Randwick.

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The median wait for heart valve replacement in New South Wales public hospitals was 22 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Heart valve replacement waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/heart-valve-replacement/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/heart-valve-replacement/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.