Cataract surgery waiting time at Narrogin 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 Narrogin area of Western Australia was 105 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: 105 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 120 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.8%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 63 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 2020–21 to 105 days in 2024–25 — up 114% — while the national median fell from 172 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Peel Health Campus, about 139 km away, at 48 days. Here, 0.8% 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
Narrogin Hospital	105 days	0.8%	120 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.

Katanning HospitalWA · about 91 km away363 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 139 km away48 days
Northam HospitalWA · about 151 km away27 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 156 km away71 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 159 km away23 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 164 km away93 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 165 km away181 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 166 km away35 days

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

How the wait has changed

Narrogin Hospital
WA
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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	Narrogin Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	38	89
2012–13	not reported for this period	45	89
2013–14	not reported for this period	43	79
2014–15	not reported for this period	41	83
2015–16	not reported for this period	37	93
2016–17	not reported for this period	51	85
2017–18	not reported for this period	63	87
2018–19	not reported for this period	61	84
2019–20	not reported for this period	59	98
2020–21	49	77	172
2021–22	63	108	158
2022–23	94	117	133
2023–24	67	98	119
2024–25	105	82	106

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

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