Cataract surgery waiting time at Bathurst Base 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 Bathurst 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: 330 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 425 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.2%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 118 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 291 days in 2011–12 to 330 days in 2024–25 — up 13% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Lithgow Hospital, about 53 km away, at 231 days. Here, 0.2% 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
Bathurst Base Hospital	330 days	0.2%	425 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.

Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 46 km away335 days
Lithgow HospitalNSW · about 53 km away231 days
Blue Mountains HospitalNSW · about 77 km away281 days
Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 89 km away138 days
Cowra Health ServiceNSW · about 94 km away339 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 118 km away77 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 136 km away317 days
Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 138 km away204 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	Bathurst Base Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	291	233	89
2012–13	222	238	89
2013–14	278	218	79
2014–15	321	221	83
2015–16	267	240	93
2016–17	194	224	85
2017–18	189	223	87
2018–19	260	245	84
2019–20	320	286	98
2020–21	329	290	172
2021–22	362	278	158
2022–23	313	282	133
2023–24	322	262	119
2024–25	330	268	106

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

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