Surgery Waits

Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting time at Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]

Half of patients at Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] waited 19 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 Ringwood East 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
19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
19 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 38 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 2020–21 to 19 days in 2024–25 — up 27% — while the national median stayed at 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Box Hill Hospital, about 12 km away, at 17 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
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]19 daysnot published19 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)15 days1.4%1728 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 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection by financial year at Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood], compared with Victoria and Australiadays051015202016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 19VIC 15Australia 18
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 periodMaroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not published1717
2017–18not published1817
2018–19not published1618
2019–20not published1617
2020–21151618
2021–22not published1517
2022–23101518
2023–24111519
2024–25191518

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

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