Heart valve replacement waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

The median wait for heart valve replacement at this public hospital in the Adelaide area of South Australia was 42 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait: 42 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 145 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 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 42 days in 2024–25 — up 100% — while the national median rose from 25 days to 33 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 11 km away, at 34 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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	42 days	0.0%	145 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	39 days	0.8%	236 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	26 days	1.2%	676 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	33 days	0.9%	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.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away34 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 629 km away24 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 653 km away227 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 654 km away20 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 656 km away22 days
The AlfredVIC · about 658 km away36 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 660 km away21 days
Victorian Heart HospitalVIC · about 674 km away46 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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

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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 period	Royal Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	21	27	25
2017–18	31	36	29
2018–19	27	29	28
2019–20	28	28	26
2020–21	22	27	27
2021–22	24	23	28
2022–23	32	32	29
2023–24	30	31	30
2024–25	42	39	33

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

All surgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital · Heart valve replacement across Australia · Heart valve replacement in South Australia