Surgery Waits

Heart valve replacement waiting time at Liverpool Hospital

The median wait for heart valve replacement at this public hospital in the Warwick Farm area of New South Wales was 54 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
54 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
59 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
0.0%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 21 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 48 days in 2016–17 to 54 days in 2024–25 — up 13% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is St George Hospital NSW, about 19 km away, at 10 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.9%.

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.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Heart valve replacement, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Liverpool Hospital54 days0.0%59 surgeries
Australian Capital Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published18 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)22 days0.0%574 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)33 days0.9%2205 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for heart valve replacement by financial year at Liverpool Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0193856752016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Liverpool Hospital 54NSW 22Australia 33
  • Liverpool Hospital
  • NSW
  • Australia
View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Heart valve replacement, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodLiverpool Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17483525
2017–18433729
2018–19583728
2019–20373526
2020–21472827
2021–22353428
2022–23492129
2023–24462130
2024–25542233

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at Liverpool Hospital · Heart valve replacement across Australia · Heart valve replacement in New South Wales