Heart valve replacement waiting times in New South Wales

Public hospitals in New South Wales ranked by their median wait for heart valve replacement.

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. The state median was 22 days; the national median was 33 days.

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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.

Wollongong Hospital1 day
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]7 days
St George Hospital NSW10 days
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital12 days
Prince of Wales Hospital34 days
John Hunter Hospital37 days
Liverpool Hospital54 days
Westmead Hospital72 days
Kempsey District Hospitalnot published
Royal North Shore Hospitalnot published

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

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.