Insertion of ventricular peritoneal shunt waiting times in New South Wales

Public hospitals in New South Wales ranked by their median wait for insertion of ventricular peritoneal shunt.

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

13 public hospitals in New South Wales reported insertion of ventricular peritoneal shunt in 2024–25. The state median was not published; the national median was 17 days.

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11 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 17 days marks the national median.

John Hunter Hospital28 days
Wollongong Hospital34 days
Concord Repatriation Hospitalnot published
Liverpool Hospitalnot published
Nepean Hospitalnot published
Prince of Wales Hospitalnot published
Royal North Shore Hospitalnot published
Royal Prince Alfred Hospitalnot published
St George Hospital NSWnot published
St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]not published
Sydney Children's Hospitalnot published
The Children's Hospital at Westmeadnot published
Westmead Hospitalnot published

Insertion of ventricular peritoneal shunt 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	John Hunter Hospital	28 days	not published	13 surgeries
2	Wollongong Hospital	34 days	not published	10 surgeries
unranked	Concord Repatriation Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Liverpool Hospital	not published	not published	9 surgeries
unranked	Nepean Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Prince of Wales Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Royal North Shore Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Royal Prince Alfred Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	St George Hospital NSW	not published	not published	not published
unranked	St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]	not published	not published	not published
unranked	Sydney Children's Hospital	not published	not published	not published
unranked	The Children's Hospital at Westmead	not published	not published	6 surgeries
unranked	Westmead Hospital	not published	not published	8 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 New South Wales.