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Heart valve replacement waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for heart valve replacement in Victoria public hospitals was 26 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.

8 public hospitals in Victoria 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.

1 hospital has 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 Victoria 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 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 20 days 0.7% 143 surgeries
2 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 21 days 2.5% 79 surgeries
3 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 22 days 0.0% 62 surgeries
4 University Hospital Geelong 24 days 0.0% 116 surgeries
5 The Alfred 36 days 0.0% 146 surgeries
6 Victorian Heart Hospital 46 days 0.0% 106 surgeries
7 Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 227 days not published 23 surgeries
unranked Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] not published not published not published
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The median wait for heart valve replacement in Victoria public hospitals was 26 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/heart-valve-replacement/vic/), 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 Victoria.