Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting time at Royal Adelaide Hospital
Half of patients at Royal Adelaide Hospital waited 20 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 Adelaide area of South 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
- 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 105 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- 2.9%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 44 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — down 5% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, about 6 km away, at 14 days. Here, 2.9% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Adelaide Hospital | 20 days | 2.9% | 105 surgeries |
| South Australia (all public hospitals) | 17 days | 0.9% | 470 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.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, SA · about 6 km away: 14 days
Flinders Medical Centre, SA · about 11 km away: 15 days
Lyell McEwin Hospital, SA · about 21 km away: 17 days
Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service, SA · about 376 km away: 12 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Royal Adelaide Hospital
- SA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Royal Adelaide Hospital (days) | SA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 21 | 18 | 17 |
| 2017–18 | 15 | 17 | 17 |
| 2018–19 | 17 | 17 | 18 |
| 2019–20 | 22 | 19 | 17 |
| 2020–21 | 22 | 19 | 18 |
| 2021–22 | 23 | 17 | 17 |
| 2022–23 | 23 | 19 | 18 |
| 2023–24 | 24 | 20 | 19 |
| 2024–25 | 20 | 17 | 18 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Royal Adelaide Hospital · Large bowel surgery (colectomy) across Australia · Large bowel surgery (colectomy) in South Australia · All surgery waits in South Australia