Carotid endarterectomy waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Carotid endarterectomy, nationally and by state.

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

Across Australia, the median wait for Carotid endarterectomy in public hospitals was 20 days in 2024–25, from 702 surgeries. 0.6% of people waited more than 365 days. 27 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

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

Queensland13 days
Victoria19 days
New South Wales23 days
Northern Territorynot published
South Australianot published
Tasmanianot published
Western Australianot published

Carotid endarterectomy in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Queensland	13 days	0.0%	144 surgeries
2	Victoria	19 days	1.6%	128 surgeries
3	New South Wales	23 days	0.3%	355 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	5 surgeries
unranked	South Australia	not published	not published	18 surgeries
unranked	Tasmania	not published	not published	18 surgeries
unranked	Western Australia	not published	not published	34 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
QLD
VIC
NSW

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	Australia (days)	QLD (days)	VIC (days)	NSW (days)
2016–17	11	9	15	not published
2017–18	13	9	16	not published
2018–19	19	10	22	20
2019–20	17	11	17	21
2020–21	20	12	18	23
2021–22	16	10	15	21
2022–23	18	13	16	23
2023–24	18	11	20	21
2024–25	20	13	19	23

What is not here

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

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.