Cataract surgery waiting time at Broken Hill 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 Silverton 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: 222 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 232 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 14.2%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 99 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 145 days in 2011–12 to 222 days in 2024–25 — up 53% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Clare Hospital, about 338 km away, at 48 days. Here, 14.2% 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
Broken Hill Hospital	222 days	14.2%	232 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	268 days	22.0%	32695 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.

Riverland General HospitalSA · about 271 km away229 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 338 km away48 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 351 km away199 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 352 km away119 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 361 km away51 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 383 km away196 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 387 km away83 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 411 km away61 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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

Broken Hill 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	Broken Hill Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	145	233	89
2012–13	124	238	89
2013–14	148	218	79
2014–15	236	221	83
2015–16	271	240	93
2016–17	242	224	85
2017–18	214	223	87
2018–19	272	245	84
2019–20	305	286	98
2020–21	288	290	172
2021–22	173	278	158
2022–23	196	282	133
2023–24	151	262	119
2024–25	222	268	106

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

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