Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection waiting time at Albany Hospital

The median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection at this public hospital in the Spencer Park area of Western Australia was 24 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 33 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 87 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 64 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 15 days in 2016–17 to 24 days in 2024–25 — up 60% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bunbury Hospital, about 276 km away, at 13 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Albany Hospital	24 days	not published	33 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	18 days	0.6%	616 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	18 days	1.0%	5575 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

Bunbury HospitalWA · about 276 km away13 days
Fiona Stanley HospitalWA · about 378 km away22 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 388 km away14 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 388 km away16 days
Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 389 km away23 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 413 km away15 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Albany Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Albany Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	15	15	17
2017–18	22	17	17
2018–19	20	21	18
2019–20	15	17	17
2020–21	23	18	18
2021–22	not published	17	17
2022–23	20	20	18
2023–24	26	20	19
2024–25	24	18	18

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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