Cataract surgery waiting time at Gosford 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 Gosford 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: 183 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 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 132 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 86 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 144 days in 2011–12 to 183 days in 2024–25 — up 27% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Wyong Hospital, about 22 km away, at 93 days.

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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
Gosford Hospital	183 days	not published	10 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.

Wyong HospitalNSW · about 22 km away93 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 47 km away354 days
Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye HospitalNSW · about 51 km away353 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 52 km away36 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 52 km away111 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 53 km away77 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 53 km away44 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 54 km away351 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	Gosford Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	144	233	89
2012–13	90	238	89
2013–14	234	218	79
2014–15	235	221	83
2015–16	76	240	93
2016–17	127	224	85
2017–18	98	223	87
2018–19	139	245	84
2019–20	83	286	98
2020–21	310	290	172
2021–22	not published	278	158
2022–23	190	282	133
2023–24	243	262	119
2024–25	183	268	106

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

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