Cataract surgery waiting time at Auburn Hospital

The median wait for cataract surgery — published by the source as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)" — at this public hospital in the Auburn area of New South Wales was 280 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 280 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 466 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 26.2%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 132 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 111 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 6 km away, at 36 days. Here, 26.2% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 11.5%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Auburn Hospital	280 days	26.2%	466 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	268 days	22.0%	32695 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	106 days	11.5%	87841 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 106 days marks the national median.

Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 6 km away36 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 7 km away351 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 8 km away44 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 8 km away307 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 12 km away204 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 14 km away44 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 15 km away354 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 17 km away353 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Auburn Hospital
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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Auburn Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	233	89
2012–13	not reported for this period	238	89
2013–14	not reported for this period	218	79
2014–15	not reported for this period	221	83
2015–16	not reported for this period	240	93
2016–17	not reported for this period	224	85
2017–18	not reported for this period	223	87
2018–19	not reported for this period	245	84
2019–20	not reported for this period	286	98
2020–21	not reported for this period	290	172
2021–22	not reported for this period	278	158
2022–23	not reported for this period	282	133
2023–24	not reported for this period	262	119
2024–25	280	268	106

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

All surgery at Auburn Hospital · Cataract surgery across Australia · Cataract surgery in New South Wales