Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting time at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]
Half of patients at Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] waited 21 days or less for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection". This public hospital is in the Ballarat Central area of Victoria.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 87 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 87 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 51 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 25 days in 2016–17 to 21 days in 2024–25 — down 16% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is University Hospital Geelong, about 80 km away, at 10 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.0%.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] | 21 days | 0.0% | 87 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 15 days | 1.4% | 1728 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 18 days | 1.0% | 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.
University Hospital Geelong, VIC · about 80 km away: 10 days
Werribee Mercy Hospital, VIC · about 83 km away: 19 days
Western Hospital [Footscray], VIC · about 95 km away: 11 days
The Bendigo Hospital, VIC · about 98 km away: 15 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC · about 101 km away: 13 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 101 km away: 20 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], VIC · about 103 km away: 16 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping], VIC · about 103 km away: 19 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 25 | 17 | 17 |
| 2017–18 | 15 | 18 | 17 |
| 2018–19 | 18 | 16 | 18 |
| 2019–20 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 2020–21 | 16 | 16 | 18 |
| 2021–22 | 16 | 15 | 17 |
| 2022–23 | 16 | 15 | 18 |
| 2023–24 | 16 | 15 | 19 |
| 2024–25 | 21 | 15 | 18 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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