Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting time at Tweed Valley Hospital
Half of patients at Tweed Valley Hospital waited 16 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 Tweed Heads area of New South Wales.
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
- 16 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 31 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 28 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 11 days in 2016–17 to 16 days in 2024–25 — up 45% — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tweed Valley Hospital | 16 days | not published | 31 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 20 days | 1.0% | 1797 surgeries |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | 22 days | 0.4% | 925 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.
Gold Coast University Hospital, QLD · about 29 km away: 22 days
Logan Hospital, QLD · about 69 km away: 25 days
Lismore Base Hospital, NSW · about 75 km away: 20 days
Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital, QLD · about 84 km away: 26 days
Princess Alexandra Hospital, QLD · about 91 km away: 17 days
Mater Adult Hospital, QLD · about 92 km away: 24 days
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, QLD · about 96 km away: 24 days
Ipswich Hospital, QLD · about 99 km away: 22 days
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. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Tweed Valley Hospital
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Tweed Valley Hospital (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 11 | 18 | 17 |
| 2017–18 | 7 | 16 | 17 |
| 2018–19 | 15 | 19 | 18 |
| 2019–20 | 16 | 16 | 17 |
| 2020–21 | 24 | 19 | 18 |
| 2021–22 | 15 | 17 | 17 |
| 2022–23 | 20 | 20 | 18 |
| 2023–24 | 19 | 20 | 19 |
| 2024–25 | 16 | 20 | 18 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Tweed Valley Hospital · Large bowel surgery (colectomy) across Australia · Large bowel surgery (colectomy) in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales