Cataract surgery waiting time at South East Regional 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 Tarraganda 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: 330 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 343 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.2%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 118 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 263 days in 2015–16 to 330 days in 2024–25 — up 25% — while the national median rose from 93 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Batemans Bay Hospital, about 112 km away, at 233 days. Here, 1.2% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 11.5%.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick “Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)” and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

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
South East Regional Hospital	330 days	1.2%	343 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	268 days	22.0%	32695 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.

Batemans Bay HospitalNSW · about 112 km away233 days
Goulburn Base HospitalNSW · about 216 km away169 days
Bowral HospitalNSW · about 250 km away204 days
Shellharbour HospitalNSW · about 253 km away319 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 274 km away365 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 285 km away338 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 303 km away317 days
Sutherland HospitalNSW · about 316 km away200 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

How the wait has changed

South East Regional Hospital
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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	South East Regional Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	233	89
2012–13	not reported for this period	238	89
2013–14	not reported for this period	218	79
2014–15	not reported for this period	221	83
2015–16	263	240	93
2016–17	115	224	85
2017–18	170	223	87
2018–19	204	245	84
2019–20	230	286	98
2020–21	362	290	172
2021–22	313	278	158
2022–23	321	282	133
2023–24	316	262	119
2024–25	330	268	106

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

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