Cataract surgery waiting time at Inverell 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 Inverell 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: 313 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 252 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 13.1%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 114 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 321 days in 2011–12 to 313 days in 2024–25 — down 2% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Armidale Hospital, about 97 km away, at 269 days. Here, 13.1% 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
Inverell Hospital	313 days	13.1%	252 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.

Armidale HospitalNSW · about 97 km away269 days
Moree HospitalNSW · about 129 km away217 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 146 km away331 days
Grafton Base HospitalNSW · about 175 km away354 days
Macksville District HospitalNSW · about 201 km away366 days
Kempsey District HospitalNSW · about 217 km away208 days
Lismore Base HospitalNSW · about 235 km away106 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	Inverell Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	321	233	89
2012–13	305	238	89
2013–14	256	218	79
2014–15	285	221	83
2015–16	329	240	93
2016–17	251	224	85
2017–18	194	223	87
2018–19	256	245	84
2019–20	298	286	98
2020–21	268	290	172
2021–22	357	278	158
2022–23	382	282	133
2023–24	300	262	119
2024–25	313	268	106

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

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