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Large bowel surgery (colectomy) waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in Victoria public hospitals was 15 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.

28 public hospitals in Victoria 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.

7 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 Victoria 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 Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] 10 days 6.4% 141 surgeries
1 University Hospital Geelong 10 days 0.0% 78 surgeries
3 Western Hospital [Footscray] 11 days 3.1% 96 surgeries
4 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 12 days not published 26 surgeries
5 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 13 days not published 31 surgeries
5 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre 13 days 2.7% 220 surgeries
7 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 14 days 0.0% 51 surgeries
8 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 15 days not published 16 surgeries
8 Northeast Health Wangaratta 15 days not published 49 surgeries
8 The Alfred 15 days 0.0% 108 surgeries
8 The Bendigo Hospital 15 days 0.0% 115 surgeries
12 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 16 days 0.0% 63 surgeries
13 Box Hill Hospital 17 days 0.6% 171 surgeries
14 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 19 days not published 19 surgeries
14 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 19 days 0.0% 88 surgeries
14 Werribee Mercy Hospital 19 days not published 43 surgeries
17 Frankston Hospital 20 days 0.0% 105 surgeries
17 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 20 days not published 38 surgeries
19 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 21 days 0.0% 87 surgeries
19 Dandenong Hospital 21 days 1.9% 155 surgeries
21 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 84 days not published 11 surgeries
unranked Angliss Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Casey Hospital not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] not published not published not published
unranked Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] not published not published not published
unranked Sandringham Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Sunshine Hospital not published not published not published
unranked West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Heidelberg.

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The median wait for large bowel surgery (colectomy) in Victoria public hospitals was 15 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

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