Surgery Waits

Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 24 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
24 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 87 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 64 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 15 days in 2016–17 to 24 days in 2024–25 — up 60% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 276 km away, at 13 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Albany Hospital24 daysnot published33 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)18 days0.6%616 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)18 days1.0%5575 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 18 days marks the national median.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection by financial year at Albany Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Albany Hospital 24WA 18Australia 18
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlbany Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17151517
2017–18221717
2018–19202118
2019–20151717
2020–21231818
2021–22not published1717
2022–23202018
2023–24262019
2024–25241818

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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