Cataract surgery waiting time at Campbelltown 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 Campbelltown 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: 317 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 1019 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 17.1%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 115 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 150 days in 2011–12 to 317 days in 2024–25 — up 111% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Liverpool Hospital, about 21 km away, at 204 days. Here, 17.1% 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
Campbelltown Hospital	317 days	17.1%	1019 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.

Liverpool HospitalNSW · about 21 km away204 days
Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 25 km away307 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 29 km away200 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 32 km away280 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 35 km away351 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 35 km away44 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 38 km away36 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 41 km away44 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	Campbelltown Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	150	233	89
2012–13	218	238	89
2013–14	119	218	79
2014–15	228	221	83
2015–16	358	240	93
2016–17	300	224	85
2017–18	280	223	87
2018–19	215	245	84
2019–20	274	286	98
2020–21	170	290	172
2021–22	335	278	158
2022–23	261	282	133
2023–24	219	262	119
2024–25	317	268	106

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

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