Cataract surgery waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

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 Westmead area of New South Wales was 44 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: 44 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 20 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 30 days in 2011–12 to 44 days in 2024–25 — up 47% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Concord Repatriation Hospital, about 10 km away, at 36 days.

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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
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	44 days	not published	13 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.

Westmead HospitalNSW · about 0 km away351 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 8 km away280 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 10 km away36 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 14 km away204 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 15 km away307 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 18 km away354 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 20 km away44 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 22 km away353 days

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

How the wait has changed

The Children's Hospital at Westmead
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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	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	30	233	89
2012–13	47	238	89
2013–14	21	218	79
2014–15	47	221	83
2015–16	50	240	93
2016–17	38	224	85
2017–18	56	223	87
2018–19	58	245	84
2019–20	28	286	98
2020–21	24	290	172
2021–22	11	278	158
2022–23	23	282	133
2023–24	22	262	119
2024–25	44	268	106

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

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