Surgery Waits

Coronary artery bypass grafting waiting time at Wollongong Hospital

The median wait for coronary artery bypass grafting at this public hospital in the Wollongong area of New South Wales was 1 day 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
1 day2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
172 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 23 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 9 days in 2021–22 to 1 day in 2024–25 — down 89% — while the national median stayed at 19 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 0.1%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Coronary artery bypass grafting, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Wollongong Hospital1 day0.0%172 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)19 days0.0%923 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)19 days0.1%2719 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 19 days marks the national median.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for coronary artery bypass grafting by financial year at Wollongong Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0102030402011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Wollongong Hospital 1NSW 19Australia 19
  • Wollongong Hospital
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Coronary artery bypass grafting, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodWollongong Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–12not reported for this period2316
2012–13not reported for this period2816
2013–14not reported for this period2518
2014–15not reported for this period2714
2015–16not reported for this period2713
2016–17not reported for this period2713
2017–18not reported for this period3217
2018–19not reported for this period3417
2019–20not published2518
2020–21not reported for this period2618
2021–2291819
2022–2381719
2023–2481819
2024–2511919

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

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