Large bowel surgery (colectomy) near the Perth CBD
Near the Perth CBD, St John of God Midland Public Hospital had the shortest median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in 2024–25: 14 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
3 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for large bowel surgery (colectomy), shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. 1 hospital sits just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and is included because a referral can cross the line. 1 hospital has no current published median. It is listed last and never ranked; a figure the source withheld reads "not published". The source publishes this surgery as "Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection".
Hospitals in or near the Perth CBD
| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St John of God Midland Public Hospital | 14 days | 2.9% | Midland, WA. In this area. |
| 2 | Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus | 16 days | 0.6% | Perth CBD, WA. In this area. |
| 3 | Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital | 23 days | 0.0% | Kings Park, WA. Outside this area, about 5 km from Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus. |
| unranked | Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital | not published | not published | Mount Nasura, WA. In this area. |
This area covers Armadale-Kelmscott Memorial Hospital, Bentley Health Service, Kalamunda Hospital, Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street Campus and St John of God Midland Public Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "East Metropolitan Health Service (WA)". Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.
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Near the Perth CBD, St John of God Midland Public Hospital had the shortest median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in 2024–25: 14 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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Surgery Waits, "Large bowel surgery (colectomy) near the Perth CBD", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/colectomy-anterior-resection-large-bowel-resection/near/perth-cbd/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/colectomy-anterior-resection-large-bowel-resection/near/perth-cbd/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.
What is not here
Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.
See every Western Australia hospital for large bowel surgery (colectomy), or every hospital in East Metropolitan Health Service.