Heart valve replacement waiting time at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]

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: 227 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 23 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 25 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 Children's Hospital [Parkville]	227 days	not published	23 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.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 1 km away20 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away22 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away36 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 11 km away21 days
Victorian Heart HospitalVIC · about 21 km away46 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 65 km away24 days

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

How the wait has changed

Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]
VIC
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 period	Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	26	25
2017–18	not reported for this period	36	29
2018–19	not reported for this period	27	28
2019–20	not reported for this period	25	26
2020–21	not reported for this period	25	27
2021–22	not reported for this period	25	28
2022–23	259	27	29
2023–24	200	29	30
2024–25	227	26	33

What is not here

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

All surgery at Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] · Heart valve replacement across Australia · Heart valve replacement in Victoria