Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection waiting time at Royal Adelaide 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: 20 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 105 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.9%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 44 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
Royal Adelaide Hospital	20 days	2.9%	105 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	17 days	0.9%	470 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.

The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 6 km away14 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 11 km away15 days
Lyell McEwin HospitalSA · about 21 km away17 days
Mount Gambier and Districts Health ServiceSA · about 376 km away12 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

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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 Adelaide Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	21	18	17
2017–18	15	17	17
2018–19	17	17	18
2019–20	22	19	17
2020–21	22	19	18
2021–22	23	17	17
2022–23	23	19	18
2023–24	24	20	19
2024–25	20	17	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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