Cataract surgery waiting time at Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for cataract surgery — published by the source as “Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)” — at this public hospital in the Condell Park area of New South Wales, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 307 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 737 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 17.4%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 113 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 284 days in 2011–12 to 307 days in 2024–25 — up 8% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Auburn Hospital, about 8 km away, at 280 days. Here, 17.4% 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
Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital	307 days	17.4%	737 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.

Auburn HospitalNSW · about 8 km away280 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 8 km away204 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 13 km away36 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 14 km away200 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 15 km away351 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 15 km away44 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 16 km away44 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 19 km away353 days

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

How the wait has changed

Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital
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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	Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	284	233	89
2012–13	347	238	89
2013–14	338	218	79
2014–15	348	221	83
2015–16	144	240	93
2016–17	99	224	85
2017–18	252	223	87
2018–19	317	245	84
2019–20	329	286	98
2020–21	199	290	172
2021–22	237	278	158
2022–23	318	282	133
2023–24	229	262	119
2024–25	307	268	106

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

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