Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting time at Blacktown Hospital
Half of patients at Blacktown Hospital waited 26 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 Blacktown area of New South Wales.
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
- 26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 81 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 76 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 22 days in 2016–17 to 26 days in 2024–25 — up 18% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 7 km away, at 20 days. Here, 0.0% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.0%.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blacktown Hospital | 26 days | 0.0% | 81 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 20 days | 1.0% | 1797 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.
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 7 km away: 20 days
Ryde Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 21 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 16 km away: 26 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 18 km away: 14 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 19 km away: 26 days
Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 46 days
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 18 days
Hawkesbury Hospital, NSW · about 20 km away: 24 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Blacktown Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Blacktown Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 22 | 18 | 17 |
| 2017–18 | 22 | 16 | 17 |
| 2018–19 | 22 | 19 | 18 |
| 2019–20 | 25 | 16 | 17 |
| 2020–21 | 28 | 19 | 18 |
| 2021–22 | 20 | 17 | 17 |
| 2022–23 | 28 | 20 | 18 |
| 2023–24 | 24 | 20 | 19 |
| 2024–25 | 26 | 20 | 18 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Blacktown Hospital · Large bowel surgery (colectomy) across Australia · Large bowel surgery (colectomy) in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales