Surgery Waits

Heart valve replacement waiting times in South Australia

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

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

2 public hospitals in South Australia reported heart valve replacement in 2024–25. The state median was 39 days; the national median was 33 days.

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.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 33 days marks the national median.

Heart valve replacement in South Australia 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 Flinders Medical Centre 34 days 2.2% 91 surgeries
2 Royal Adelaide Hospital 42 days 0.0% 145 surgeries

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 South Australia.