Cataract surgery waiting time at Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]

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 Traralgon area of Victoria, 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: 1 day2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 934 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 8.6%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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 52 days in 2011–12 to 1 day in 2024–25 — down 98% — 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. Here, 8.6% 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
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]	1 day	8.6%	934 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	68 days	4.7%	21008 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.

West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 48 km away64 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 89 km away27 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 105 km away100 days
Yarra Ranges HealthVIC · about 111 km away87 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 119 km away338 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 135 km away134 days
The AlfredVIC · about 137 km away36 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 139 km away48 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	Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	52	61	89
2012–13	55	52	89
2013–14	29	41	79
2014–15	7	35	83
2015–16	8	56	93
2016–17	27	41	85
2017–18	6	40	87
2018–19	6	36	84
2019–20	7	49	98
2020–21	10	79	172
2021–22	6	84	158
2022–23	5	77	133
2023–24	3	89	119
2024–25	1	68	106

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

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