Cataract surgery waiting time at Orange Health Service

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 Spring Creek area of New South Wales was 335 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: 335 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 586 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 13.0%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 121 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 349 days in 2011–12 to 335 days in 2024–25 — down 4% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bathurst Base Hospital, about 46 km away, at 330 days. Here, 13.0% 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
Orange Health Service	335 days	13.0%	586 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.

Bathurst Base HospitalNSW · about 46 km away330 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 68 km away339 days
Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 92 km away138 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 98 km away231 days
Lachlan Health Service - ForbesNSW · about 101 km away182 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 122 km away281 days
Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 128 km away201 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 163 km away77 days

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

How the wait has changed

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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	Orange Health Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	349	233	89
2012–13	336	238	89
2013–14	319	218	79
2014–15	335	221	83
2015–16	342	240	93
2016–17	340	224	85
2017–18	332	223	87
2018–19	330	245	84
2019–20	347	286	98
2020–21	335	290	172
2021–22	335	278	158
2022–23	310	282	133
2023–24	322	262	119
2024–25	335	268	106

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

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