Cataract surgery waiting time at Hedland Health Campus

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 South Hedland area of Western Australia, 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: 36 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 19 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 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 26 days in 2011–12 to 36 days in 2024–25 — up 38% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Hedland Health Campus	36 days	not published	19 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	5.1%	12672 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.

Karratha Health CampusWA · about 186 km away39 days
Broome HospitalWA · about 469 km away269 days
Derby HospitalWA · about 632 km away82 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

Hedland Health Campus
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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	Hedland Health Campus (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	26	38	89
2012–13	6	45	89
2013–14	21	43	79
2014–15	133	41	83
2015–16	85	37	93
2016–17	109	51	85
2017–18	179	63	87
2018–19	247	61	84
2019–20	139	59	98
2020–21	279	77	172
2021–22	269	108	158
2022–23	265	117	133
2023–24	295	98	119
2024–25	36	82	106

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

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