Surgery Waits

Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting time at Sunshine Coast University Hospital

Half of patients at Sunshine Coast University Hospital 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 Birtinya area of Queensland.

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
80 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 38 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 28 days in 2016–17 to 19 days in 2024–25 — down 32% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Princess Alexandra Hospital, about 84 km away, at 17 days. Here, 0.0% 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

Median wait, long waits and volume for Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection, 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Sunshine Coast University Hospital19 days0.0%80 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)22 days0.4%925 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 Sunshine Coast University Hospital, compared with Queensland and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Sunshine Coast University Hospital 19QLD 22Australia 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 periodSunshine Coast University Hospital (days)QLD (days)Australia (days)
2016–17281817
2017–18221917
2018–19221918
2019–20211817
2020–21252118
2021–22221917
2022–23232018
2023–24162019
2024–25192218

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Sunshine Coast University.

Patients treated
353 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time
66.6%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter
538 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended
67 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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

All surgery at Sunshine Coast University Hospital · Large bowel surgery (colectomy) across Australia · Large bowel surgery (colectomy) in Queensland · All surgery waits in Queensland