Cataract surgery waiting time at Bentley Health Service

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 St James area of Western Australia was 71 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: 71 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 2096 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.5%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 36 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2011–12 to 71 days in 2024–25 — up 173% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Perth Children's Hospital, about 11 km away, at 35 days. Here, 0.5% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 11.5%.

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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
Bentley Health Service	71 days	0.5%	2096 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	5.1%	12672 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.

Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 8 km away93 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 11 km away35 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 14 km away23 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 18 km away181 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 33 km away89 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 61 km away48 days
Northam HospitalWA · about 79 km away27 days
Narrogin HospitalWA · about 156 km away105 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 Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Bentley Health Service (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	26	38	89
2012–13	28	45	89
2013–14	40	43	79
2014–15	68	41	83
2015–16	63	37	93
2016–17	91	51	85
2017–18	113	63	87
2018–19	62	61	84
2019–20	55	59	98
2020–21	101	77	172
2021–22	155	108	158
2022–23	165	117	133
2023–24	106	98	119
2024–25	71	82	106

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

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