Surgery Waits

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

The median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection at this public hospital in the Windsor area of New South Wales was 24 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
26 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 11 days in 2016–17 to 24 days in 2024–25 — up 118% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Westmead Hospital, about 27 km away, at 20 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
Hawkesbury Hospital24 daysnot published26 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)20 days1.0%1797 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)18 days1.0%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.

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection by financial year at Hawkesbury Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Hawkesbury Hospital 24NSW 20Australia 18
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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 periodHawkesbury Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17111817
2017–18not published1617
2018–19141918
2019–20not published1617
2020–21131918
2021–22not published1717
2022–23not published2018
2023–24382019
2024–25242018

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

All surgery at Hawkesbury Hospital · Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection across Australia · Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection in New South Wales