Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection waiting time at Royal Prince Alfred 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: 9 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 48 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 2 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 Prince Alfred Hospital	9 days	not published	48 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst]NSW · about 4 km away18 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 6 km away14 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 8 km away12 days
St George Hospital NSWNSW · about 10 km away15 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away14 days
Ryde HospitalNSW · about 14 km away21 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 16 km away18 days
Northern Beaches HospitalNSW · about 16 km away13 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 Prince Alfred Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	8	18	17
2017–18	10	16	17
2018–19	13	19	18
2019–20	13	16	17
2020–21	8	19	18
2021–22	7	17	17
2022–23	6	20	18
2023–24	8	20	19
2024–25	9	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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