Cataract surgery waiting time at Kempsey District 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 West Kempsey area of New South Wales was 208 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: 208 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 781 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.6%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 94 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 201 days in 2011–12 to 208 days in 2024–25 — up 3% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Port Macquarie Base Hospital, about 43 km away, at 82 days. Here, 0.6% 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
Kempsey District Hospital	208 days	0.6%	781 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.

Macksville District HospitalNSW · about 41 km away366 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 43 km away82 days
Manning HospitalNSW · about 100 km away169 days
Armidale HospitalNSW · about 127 km away269 days
Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial HospitalNSW · about 133 km away67 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 155 km away354 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 181 km away331 days
Inverell HospitalNSW · about 217 km away313 days

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

How the wait has changed

Kempsey District 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	Kempsey District Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	201	233	89
2012–13	308	238	89
2013–14	330	218	79
2014–15	343	221	83
2015–16	272	240	93
2016–17	193	224	85
2017–18	120	223	87
2018–19	137	245	84
2019–20	170	286	98
2020–21	259	290	172
2021–22	231	278	158
2022–23	222	282	133
2023–24	213	262	119
2024–25	208	268	106

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

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