Heart valve replacement waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Heart valve replacement at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

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.

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. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

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

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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