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

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 19 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 85 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.2%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 38 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

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
Dubbo Hospital	19 days	1.2%	85 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	20 days	1.0%	1797 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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 128 km away22 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away24 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 254 km away26 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 256 km away24 days
Nepean HospitalNSW · about 258 km away26 days
Blacktown HospitalNSW · about 274 km away26 days
Maitland HospitalNSW · about 280 km away22 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 281 km away20 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

Dubbo 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	Dubbo Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	14	18	17
2017–18	14	16	17
2018–19	20	19	18
2019–20	16	16	17
2020–21	22	19	18
2021–22	17	17	17
2022–23	17	20	18
2023–24	20	20	19
2024–25	19	20	18

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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