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Shock wave stone treatment waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for shock wave stone treatment in New South Wales public hospitals was 28 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 28 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Lithotripsy".

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

28 public hospitals in New South Wales reported shock wave stone treatment in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Lithotripsy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

12 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 28 days marks the national median.

Lithotripsy 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 Griffith Base Hospital 8 days not published 13 surgeries
2 Wagga Wagga Hospital 24 days 0.0% 77 surgeries
3 Coffs Harbour Hospital 25 days 0.0% 116 surgeries
4 St George Hospital NSW 26 days 2.2% 324 surgeries
4 Sutherland Hospital 26 days 0.0% 85 surgeries
4 Wollongong Hospital 26 days not published 14 surgeries
7 Tweed Valley Hospital 29 days 0.0% 90 surgeries
8 Canterbury Hospital 34 days 0.0% 81 surgeries
9 John Hunter Hospital 38 days not published 17 surgeries
10 Prince of Wales Hospital 44 days not published 27 surgeries
11 Murwillumbah District Hospital 45 days not published 18 surgeries
12 Hawkesbury Hospital 48 days not published 13 surgeries
13 Nepean Hospital 50 days 0.0% 69 surgeries
14 Concord Repatriation Hospital 52 days 0.0% 61 surgeries
15 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 85 days 1.3% 78 surgeries
16 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 118 days not published 15 surgeries
unranked Belmont Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Blacktown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Broken Hill Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Cessnock Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Dubbo Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Orange Health Service 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 9 surgeries
unranked Shoalhaven Hospital not published not published not published
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Westmead Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Penrith · near Randwick.

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The median wait for shock wave stone treatment in New South Wales public hospitals was 28 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Shock wave stone treatment waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/lithotripsy/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/lithotripsy/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.