Cataract surgery waiting time at Katanning 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 Katanning 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: 363 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 47 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 129 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 337 days in 2011–12 to 363 days in 2024–25 — up 8% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Narrogin Hospital, about 91 km away, at 105 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
Katanning Hospital	363 days	not published	47 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.

Narrogin HospitalWA · about 91 km away105 days
Albany HospitalWA · about 150 km away235 days
Busselton Health CampusWA · about 208 km away73 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 211 km away48 days
Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 241 km away71 days
Northam HospitalWA · about 241 km away27 days
St John of God Midland Public HospitalWA · about 246 km away23 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 248 km away181 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

Katanning Hospital
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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	Katanning Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	337	38	89
2012–13	234	45	89
2013–14	314	43	79
2014–15	321	41	83
2015–16	245	37	93
2016–17	231	51	85
2017–18	216	63	87
2018–19	230	61	84
2019–20	252	59	98
2020–21	328	77	172
2021–22	338	108	158
2022–23	391	117	133
2023–24	348	98	119
2024–25	363	82	106

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

All surgery at Katanning Hospital · Cataract surgery across Australia · Cataract surgery in Western Australia