Cataract surgery waiting time at Liverpool 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 Warwick Farm 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: 204 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 616 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 35.4%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 92 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 317 days in 2011–12 to 204 days in 2024–25 — down 36% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Children's Hospital at Westmead, about 14 km away, at 44 days. Here, 35.4% 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
Liverpool Hospital	204 days	35.4%	616 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.

Bankstown Lidcombe HospitalNSW · about 8 km away307 days
Auburn HospitalNSW · about 12 km away280 days
Westmead HospitalNSW · about 14 km away351 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 14 km away44 days
Concord Repatriation HospitalNSW · about 18 km away36 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 21 km away317 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 21 km away200 days
Royal Prince Alfred HospitalNSW · about 24 km away44 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	Liverpool Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	317	233	89
2012–13	293	238	89
2013–14	197	218	79
2014–15	166	221	83
2015–16	155	240	93
2016–17	175	224	85
2017–18	216	223	87
2018–19	294	245	84
2019–20	342	286	98
2020–21	92	290	172
2021–22	365	278	158
2022–23	147	282	133
2023–24	84	262	119
2024–25	204	268	106

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

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