Surgery Waits

Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection waiting time at Northeast Health Wangaratta

The median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection at this public hospital in the Wangaratta area of Victoria was 15 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
15 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
49 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 19 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2016–17 to 15 days in 2024–25 — up 7% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], about 56 km away, at 14 days.

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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Northeast Health Wangaratta15 daysnot published49 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)20 days1.0%1797 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.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection by financial year at Northeast Health Wangaratta, compared with Victoria and Australiadays061319252016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Northeast Health Wangaratta 15VIC 15Australia 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 periodNortheast Health Wangaratta (days)VIC (days)Australia (days)
2016–17141717
2017–18141817
2018–19211618
2019–20151617
2020–21171618
2021–22121517
2022–2391518
2023–24111519
2024–25151518

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

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