Large bowel surgery (colectomy) near St Leonards
Near St Leonards, Royal North Shore Hospital had the shortest median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in 2024–25: 12 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
6 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. 2 hospitals sit just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and are included because a referral can cross the line. The source publishes this surgery as "Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection".
Hospitals in or near St Leonards
| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Royal North Shore Hospital | 12 days | 0.0% | St Leonards, NSW. In this area. |
| 2 | Northern Beaches Hospital | 13 days | not published | Frenchs Forest, NSW. In this area. |
| 3 | Concord Repatriation Hospital | 14 days | 0.0% | Concord West, NSW. Outside this area, about 5 km from Ryde Hospital. |
| 4 | St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] | 18 days | not published | Darlinghurst, NSW. Outside this area, about 7 km from Royal North Shore Hospital. |
| 5 | Ryde Hospital | 21 days | not published | Denistone East, NSW. In this area. |
| 6 | Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital | 46 days | not published | Waitara, NSW. In this area. |
This area covers Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital, Mona Vale Hospital, Northern Beaches Hospital, Royal North Shore Hospital and Ryde Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Northern Sydney". 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 St Leonards, Royal North Shore Hospital had the shortest median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in 2024–25: 12 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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Surgery Waits, "Large bowel surgery (colectomy) near St Leonards", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/colectomy-anterior-resection-large-bowel-resection/near/st-leonards/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/colectomy-anterior-resection-large-bowel-resection/near/st-leonards/), 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 New South Wales hospital for large bowel surgery (colectomy), or every hospital in Northern Sydney.