Surgery Waits

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

The median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection at this public hospital in the Cambridge Park area of New South Wales was 26 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
26 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
111 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
5.4%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

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 76 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 21 days in 2016–17 to 26 days in 2024–25 — up 24% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Hawkesbury Hospital, about 19 km away, at 24 days. Here, 5.4% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 1.0%.

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.

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
Nepean Hospital26 days5.4%111 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 Nepean Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays081523302016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Nepean Hospital 26NSW 20Australia 18
  • Nepean Hospital
  • NSW
  • Australia
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 periodNepean Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2016–17211817
2017–18231617
2018–19191918
2019–20131617
2020–21201918
2021–22191717
2022–23252018
2023–24292019
2024–25262018

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

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