Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting time at Bunbury Hospital
Half of patients at Bunbury Hospital waited 13 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 College Grove area of Western Australia.
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
- 13 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 47 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 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 10 days in 2016–17 to 13 days in 2024–25 — up 30% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bunbury Hospital | 13 days | not published | 47 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | 18 days | 0.6% | 616 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.
Fiona Stanley Hospital, WA · about 145 km away: 22 days
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA · about 156 km away: 23 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus, WA · about 158 km away: 16 days
St John of God Midland Public Hospital, WA · about 167 km away: 14 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public), WA · about 181 km away: 15 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Bunbury Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Bunbury Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 10 | 15 | 17 |
| 2017–18 | 8 | 17 | 17 |
| 2018–19 | 12 | 21 | 18 |
| 2019–20 | 11 | 17 | 17 |
| 2020–21 | 17 | 18 | 18 |
| 2021–22 | 15 | 17 | 17 |
| 2022–23 | 20 | 20 | 18 |
| 2023–24 | 13 | 20 | 19 |
| 2024–25 | 13 | 18 | 18 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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