Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection waiting time at Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]

The median wait for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection at this public hospital in the Carlton area of Victoria was 20 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: 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 38 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 44 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 14 days in 2016–17 to 20 days in 2024–25 — up 43% — while the national median rose from 17 days to 18 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, about 0 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
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]	20 days	not published	38 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	15 days	1.4%	1728 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.

Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 0 km away13 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away16 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away15 days
Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 6 km away11 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away84 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 10 km away10 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 14 km away17 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 17 km away19 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	14	17	17
2017–18	20	18	17
2018–19	15	16	18
2019–20	14	16	17
2020–21	10	16	18
2021–22	14	15	17
2022–23	15	15	18
2023–24	13	15	19
2024–25	20	15	18

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

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