Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection waiting time at Townsville University 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: 16 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 41 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 28 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
Townsville University Hospital	16 days	not published	41 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	22 days	0.4%	925 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.

Cairns HospitalQLD · about 288 km away14 days
Mackay Base HospitalQLD · about 322 km away29 days
Rockhampton HospitalQLD · about 594 km away30 days
Bundaberg Base HospitalQLD · about 843 km away24 days
Hervey Bay HospitalQLD · about 911 km away26 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 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	Townsville University Hospital (days)	QLD (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	22	18	17
2017–18	22	19	17
2018–19	22	19	18
2019–20	15	18	17
2020–21	15	21	18
2021–22	15	19	17
2022–23	14	20	18
2023–24	16	20	19
2024–25	16	22	18

Queensland's quarterly figures for general surgery

These are not figures for colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection. Queensland reports by surgical specialty, not by procedure. A specialty covers many different operations, so a specialty figure is never a figure for any one of them.

Queensland Health publishes its own figures every three months. They count differently from the national figures above and are never combined with them. This quarter ends after the national reporting period, so it is the more recent of the two.

Covers July to September 2025, published by Queensland Health on 28 October 2025. Reported as Townsville.

Patients treated: 360 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Treated within the recommended time: 78.1%July to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Still waiting at the end of the quarter: 425 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025
Waiting longer than recommended: 58 patientsJuly to September 2025 · released 28 October 2025

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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