Cataract surgery waiting time at Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)

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 Wallaroo 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: 21 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 348 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 21.6%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 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 138 days in 2011–12 to 21 days in 2024–25 — down 85% — 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, 21.6% 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
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)	21 days	21.6%	348 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.

Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 90 km away199 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 91 km away48 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 100 km away196 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 127 km away83 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 134 km away383 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 140 km away61 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 141 km away118 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 145 km away51 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	Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo) (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	138	78	89
2012–13	146	82	89
2013–14	85	78	79
2014–15	310	99	83
2015–16	131	119	93
2016–17	326	93	85
2017–18	321	97	87
2018–19	278	106	84
2019–20	295	107	98
2020–21	145	145	172
2021–22	22	120	158
2022–23	20	75	133
2023–24	21	76	119
2024–25	21	84	106

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

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