Cataract surgery waiting time at Manning 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 Taree South 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: 169 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 66 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 18.2%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 78 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 358 days in 2011–12 to 169 days in 2024–25 — down 53% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial Hospital, about 48 km away, at 67 days. Here, 18.2% 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
Manning Hospital	169 days	18.2%	66 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.

Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial HospitalNSW · about 48 km away67 days
Port Macquarie Base HospitalNSW · about 65 km away82 days
Kempsey District HospitalNSW · about 100 km away208 days
Kurri Kurri HospitalNSW · about 138 km away327 days
Macksville District HospitalNSW · about 140 km away366 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 145 km away111 days
Muswellbrook HospitalNSW · about 152 km away62 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 172 km away331 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	Manning Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	358	233	89
2012–13	354	238	89
2013–14	248	218	79
2014–15	211	221	83
2015–16	231	240	93
2016–17	309	224	85
2017–18	346	223	87
2018–19	333	245	84
2019–20	335	286	98
2020–21	387	290	172
2021–22	248	278	158
2022–23	250	282	133
2023–24	225	262	119
2024–25	169	268	106

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

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