Cataract surgery waiting times in Northern Territory

Public hospitals in Northern Territory ranked by their median wait for cataract surgery, published by the source as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

5 public hospitals in Northern Territory reported cataract surgery in 2024–25. The state median was 162 days; the national median was 106 days.

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.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 106 days marks the national median.

Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) in Northern Territory public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	Hospital	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Katherine Hospital	86 days	1.8%	112 surgeries
2	Royal Darwin Hospital	155 days	21.3%	136 surgeries
3	Palmerston Regional Hospital	161 days	11.9%	370 surgeries
4	Gove Hospital	226 days	25.0%	56 surgeries
5	Alice Springs Hospital	266 days	40.1%	247 surgeries

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in Northern Territory.