Surgery Waits

Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) waiting time at Broome Hospital

The median wait for vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) at this public hospital in the Broome area of Western Australia was 82 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
82 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
21 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 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 49 days in 2021–22 to 82 days in 2024–25 — up 67% — while the national median rose from 18 days to 26 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Broome Hospital82 daysnot published21 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)32 days1.1%566 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days2.6%3742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) by financial year at Broome Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays02550751002016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Broome Hospital 82WA 32Australia 26
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodBroome Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period2819
2017–18not reported for this period2721
2018–19not reported for this period2522
2019–20not reported for this period2521
2020–21not published2419
2021–22492618
2022–23353424
2023–24473522
2024–25823226

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

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