Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) at this public hospital, 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: 34 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Geraldton Hospital	34 days	not published	25 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	32 days	1.1%	566 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	26 days	2.6%	3742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Sir Charles Gairdner HospitalWA · about 373 km away25 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 373 km away32 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 380 km away93 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Geraldton Hospital
WA
Australia

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Geraldton Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	28	19
2017–18	not reported for this period	27	21
2018–19	not reported for this period	25	22
2019–20	not reported for this period	25	21
2020–21	not reported for this period	24	19
2021–22	43	26	18
2022–23	7	34	24
2023–24	28	35	22
2024–25	34	32	26

What is not here

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

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