Cataract surgery waiting time at Wagga Wagga 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 Turvey Park area of New South Wales was 338 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: 338 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 687 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 27.8%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 122 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 346 days in 2011–12 to 338 days in 2024–25 — down 2% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Griffith Base Hospital, about 152 km away, at 90 days. Here, 27.8% 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
Wagga Wagga Hospital	338 days	27.8%	687 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	268 days	22.0%	32695 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	68 days	4.7%	21008 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.

Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 121 km away365 days
Griffith Base HospitalNSW · about 152 km away90 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 188 km away339 days
Lachlan Health Service - ForbesNSW · about 201 km away182 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 219 km away169 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]VIC · about 224 km away3 days

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

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Wagga Wagga Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	346	233	89
2012–13	339	238	89
2013–14	336	218	79
2014–15	332	221	83
2015–16	296	240	93
2016–17	226	224	85
2017–18	212	223	87
2018–19	235	245	84
2019–20	270	286	98
2020–21	309	290	172
2021–22	281	278	158
2022–23	331	282	133
2023–24	269	262	119
2024–25	338	268	106

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

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