Cataract surgery waiting time at Whyalla Hospital and Health Services

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 Whyalla area of South Australia was 196 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: 196 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 279 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.9%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 88 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 60 days in 2011–12 to 196 days in 2024–25 — up 227% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services, about 61 km away, at 119 days. Here, 3.9% 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
Whyalla Hospital and Health Services	196 days	3.9%	279 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	84 days	9.0%	9054 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.

Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 43 km away199 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 61 km away119 days
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)SA · about 100 km away21 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 131 km away48 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 205 km away83 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 213 km away51 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 224 km away383 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 225 km away61 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	Whyalla Hospital and Health Services (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	60	78	89
2012–13	62	82	89
2013–14	62	78	79
2014–15	97	99	83
2015–16	40	119	93
2016–17	47	93	85
2017–18	54	97	87
2018–19	40	106	84
2019–20	29	107	98
2020–21	48	145	172
2021–22	38	120	158
2022–23	55	75	133
2023–24	163	76	119
2024–25	196	84	106

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

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