Carotid endarterectomy waiting time at Wollongong Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Carotid endarterectomy 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 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 27 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 12 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 Carotid endarterectomy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Wollongong Hospital	21 days	not published	33 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	23 days	0.3%	355 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	20 days	0.6%	702 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 20 days marks the national median.

Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 66 km away48 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 68 km away50 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 70 km away16 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 76 km away45 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 119 km away22 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 183 km away31 days

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

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Carotid endarterectomy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Wollongong Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	11
2017–18	not reported for this period	not reported for this period	13
2018–19	39	20	19
2019–20	21	21	17
2020–21	25	23	20
2021–22	29	21	16
2022–23	27	23	18
2023–24	19	21	18
2024–25	21	23	20

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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