Surgery Waits

Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting times in South Australia

The median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in South Australia public hospitals was 17 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.

8 public hospitals in South Australia 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.

3 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 South Australia 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 Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service 12 days not published 22 surgeries
2 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital 14 days 0.0% 97 surgeries
3 Flinders Medical Centre 15 days 0.0% 95 surgeries
4 Lyell McEwin Hospital 17 days 0.7% 145 surgeries
5 Royal Adelaide Hospital 20 days 2.9% 105 surgeries
unranked Modbury Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Port Lincoln Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Whyalla Hospital and Health Services not published not published not published

Ranked by area in South Australia: near the Adelaide CBD.

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The median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in South Australia public hospitals was 17 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

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