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Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in New South Wales public hospitals was 20 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 18 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

45 public hospitals in New South Wales reported large bowel surgery (colectomy) in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

10 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 18 days marks the national median.

Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Griffith Base Hospital 5 days not published 10 surgeries
2 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 9 days not published 48 surgeries
3 Royal North Shore Hospital 12 days 0.0% 53 surgeries
4 Northern Beaches Hospital 13 days not published 21 surgeries
5 Concord Repatriation Hospital 14 days 0.0% 119 surgeries
5 Prince of Wales Hospital 14 days not published 27 surgeries
7 John Hunter Hospital 15 days 1.3% 78 surgeries
7 St George Hospital NSW 15 days 0.0% 75 surgeries
7 Wyong Hospital 15 days not published 37 surgeries
10 Tweed Valley Hospital 16 days not published 31 surgeries
11 Wollongong Hospital 17 days 0.0% 97 surgeries
12 Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital 18 days 1.0% 97 surgeries
12 St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] 18 days not published 22 surgeries
14 Dubbo Hospital 19 days 1.2% 85 surgeries
14 Sutherland Hospital 19 days not published 23 surgeries
16 Calvary Mater Newcastle 20 days not published 32 surgeries
16 Lismore Base Hospital 20 days not published 37 surgeries
16 Westmead Hospital 20 days 0.0% 75 surgeries
19 Gosford Hospital 21 days 8.8% 68 surgeries
19 Port Macquarie Base Hospital 21 days not published 17 surgeries
19 Ryde Hospital 21 days not published 19 surgeries
22 Maitland Hospital 22 days not published 32 surgeries
22 Orange Health Service 22 days not published 41 surgeries
22 Wagga Wagga Hospital 22 days not published 29 surgeries
25 Manning Hospital 23 days not published 21 surgeries
26 Bathurst Base Hospital 24 days not published 24 surgeries
26 Hawkesbury Hospital 24 days not published 26 surgeries
28 Campbelltown Hospital 25 days 0.0% 71 surgeries
29 Blacktown Hospital 26 days 0.0% 81 surgeries
29 Coffs Harbour Hospital 26 days not published 34 surgeries
29 Liverpool Hospital 26 days 0.0% 112 surgeries
29 Nepean Hospital 26 days 5.4% 111 surgeries
29 Shoalhaven Hospital 26 days not published 33 surgeries
29 Tamworth Hospital 26 days not published 48 surgeries
35 Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital 46 days not published 16 surgeries
unranked Armidale Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Auburn Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Bowral Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Canterbury Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Fairfield Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Goulburn Base Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Grafton Base Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries
unranked Moruya Hospital not published not published not published
unranked South East Regional Hospital not published not published 8 surgeries
unranked The Children's Hospital at Westmead not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown · near Gosford · near Liverpool · near Penrith · near Randwick · near St Leonards · near Westmead.

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The median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in New South Wales public hospitals was 20 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/colectomy-anterior-resection-large-bowel-resection/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/colectomy-anterior-resection-large-bowel-resection/nsw/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in New South Wales.