Cataract surgery waiting time at Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial 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 Mount Barker area of South 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: 211 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 565 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.5%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 96 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 112 days in 2011–12 to 211 days in 2024–25 — up 88% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 28 km away, at 48 days. Here, 0.5% 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
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital	211 days	0.5%	565 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	84 days	9.0%	9054 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.

Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 28 km away48 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 31 km away118 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 32 km away61 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 38 km away383 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 55 km away83 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 58 km away17 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 66 km away51 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 141 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	Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	112	78	89
2012–13	110	82	89
2013–14	81	78	79
2014–15	58	99	83
2015–16	63	119	93
2016–17	57	93	85
2017–18	103	97	87
2018–19	141	106	84
2019–20	134	107	98
2020–21	253	145	172
2021–22	228	120	158
2022–23	265	75	133
2023–24	257	76	119
2024–25	211	84	106

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

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