Cataract surgery waiting time at Concord Repatriation 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 Concord West area of New South Wales was 36 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: 36 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 705 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 92 days in 2011–12 to 36 days in 2024–25 — down 61% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% 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
Concord Repatriation Hospital	36 days	0.0%	705 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.

Auburn HospitalNSW · about 6 km away280 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 9 km away354 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 10 km away44 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 10 km away44 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 10 km away351 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 12 km away353 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 13 km away307 days
Prince of Wales HospitalNSW · about 16 km away134 days

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

How the wait has changed

Concord Repatriation 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	Concord Repatriation Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	92	233	89
2012–13	111	238	89
2013–14	125	218	79
2014–15	141	221	83
2015–16	224	240	93
2016–17	247	224	85
2017–18	152	223	87
2018–19	87	245	84
2019–20	62	286	98
2020–21	67	290	172
2021–22	48	278	158
2022–23	36	282	133
2023–24	43	262	119
2024–25	36	268	106

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

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