Colectomy/anterior resection/large bowel resection waiting time at Werribee Mercy 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: 43 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 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
Werribee Mercy Hospital	19 days	not published	43 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.

Western Hospital [Footscray]VIC · about 20 km away11 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 25 km away13 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 25 km away20 days
The AlfredVIC · about 25 km away15 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 26 km away16 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 34 km away84 days
Austin Hospital [Heidelberg]VIC · about 35 km away10 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 38 km away17 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	Werribee Mercy Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not published	17	17
2017–18	not reported for this period	18	17
2018–19	26	16	18
2019–20	17	16	17
2020–21	20	16	18
2021–22	15	15	17
2022–23	14	15	18
2023–24	15	15	19
2024–25	19	15	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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