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Heart bypass surgery at Wollongong Hospital

Wollongong Hospital is a public hospital in the Wollongong area, New South Wales. This page shows its waiting times for Heart bypass surgery in 2024–25, beside the figures for New South Wales and for Australia.

The source publishes this surgery as "Coronary artery bypass grafting".

Figures for this hospital

Each tile shows one figure for Heart bypass surgery at Wollongong Hospital.

A rank compares this hospital with every public hospital in Australia that published the same figure for the same period. The page shows a rank only on a current published figure. It never ranks a withheld or unreported figure. It also never ranks a figure from an earlier period.

Median wait, Wollongong Hospital
1 day2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank1st of 23 nationally

Change on the year before-7 days

Waiting more than 365 days, Wollongong Hospital
0.0%2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Rank1st of 21 nationally

Patients treated, Wollongong Hospital
172 surgeries2024–25, released 19 August 2026

Compared with the state and Australia

The state and national rows cover every public hospital that reported Heart bypass surgery. They are never ranked.

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Heart bypass surgery: Wollongong Hospital, New South Wales and Australia2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Who the figures coverMedian waitWaiting more than 365 daysPatients treated
Wollongong Hospital1 day0.0%172 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)19 days0.0%923 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)19 days0.1%2,719 surgeries

Shorter waits nearby

Wollongong Hospital has 8 public hospitals on its list of nearby public hospitals. No hospital on that list published a shorter median wait for Heart bypass surgery in 2024–25.

How this hospital's wait has changed

The median wait for Heart bypass surgery at Wollongong Hospital has fallen from 9 days in 2021–22 to 1 day in 2024–25. The earlier figure is from 2021–22, released 19 August 2026, and the latest is from 2024–25, released 19 August 2026.

Each chart shows the median wait for each year the source published it. A year with no published figure is a gap in the line, and the table under the chart gives the reason.

Heart bypass surgery: median wait by financial year, Wollongong Hospital2019–20 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
05102019–202021–222022–232023–242024–25
  • Wollongong Hospital
  • No figure published for this year. The table gives the reason.
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Heart bypass surgery: median wait by financial year, Wollongong Hospital2019–20 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearWollongong Hospital
2019–20not published: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare did not publish a figure
2021–229 days
2022–238 days
2023–248 days
2024–251 day
Heart bypass surgery: median wait by financial year, New South Wales and Australia2011–12 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
0102030402012–132015–162018–192021–222024–25
  • New South Wales
  • Australia
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Heart bypass surgery: median wait by financial year, New South Wales and Australia2011–12 to 2024–25, released 19 August 2026
Financial yearNew South WalesAustralia
2011–1223 days16 days
2012–1328 days16 days
2013–1425 days18 days
2014–1527 days14 days
2015–1627 days13 days
2016–1727 days13 days
2017–1832 days17 days
2018–1934 days17 days
2019–2025 days18 days
2020–2126 days18 days
2021–2218 days19 days
2022–2317 days19 days
2023–2418 days19 days
2024–2519 days19 days

All planned surgery at Wollongong Hospital

Heart bypass surgery at every public hospital in Australia

Heart bypass surgery in New South Wales

What this page leaves out

Private hospitals are excluded. This page covers public hospitals only, so it shows no private hospital.

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Where this data comes from

  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and urgency category, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and intended procedure, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-procedure/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Elective surgery waiting times by hospital and surgical specialty, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    20 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, elective surgery waiting times data extract, sourced 19 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-elective-surgery-waiting-times-by-specialty/v/2026-10-20/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Hospitals, Local Hospital Networks and Primary Health Networks in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    3 October 2026
    Data released
    19 August 2026
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, mapping details extract, sourced 3 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-hospitals-myhospitals/v/2026-10-03/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reported measures and their codes in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reported measures, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reported-measures/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit mappings to health networks and states in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-unit-mappings/v/2026-10-27/
  • Dataset on publicdata.au
    Reporting unit codes and alternative names in MyHospitals, Australia
    Publisher
    Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
    Version
    27 October 2026
    Data released
    The publisher gives no release date for this dataset.
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    How to cite this data
    Based on Australian Institute of Health and Welfare material. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Government, MyHospitals Data API, reporting units, sourced 26 October 2026, https://myhospitalsapi.aihw.gov.au/, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/au-myhospitals-reporting-units/v/2026-10-27/