Cataract surgery waiting time at Dubbo 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 Dubbo area of New South Wales was 201 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: 201 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 572 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 6.6%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 91 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 301 days in 2011–12 to 201 days in 2024–25 — down 33% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Mudgee Health Service, about 99 km away, at 138 days. Here, 6.6% 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
Dubbo Hospital	201 days	6.6%	572 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.

Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 99 km away138 days
Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 128 km away335 days
Lachlan Health Service - ForbesNSW · about 141 km away182 days
Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 157 km away330 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 177 km away339 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 199 km away231 days
Muswellbrook HospitalNSW · about 214 km away62 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 227 km away281 days

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

How the wait has changed

Dubbo 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	Dubbo Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	301	233	89
2012–13	284	238	89
2013–14	301	218	79
2014–15	328	221	83
2015–16	344	240	93
2016–17	330	224	85
2017–18	270	223	87
2018–19	169	245	84
2019–20	253	286	98
2020–21	342	290	172
2021–22	295	278	158
2022–23	189	282	133
2023–24	252	262	119
2024–25	201	268	106

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

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