Cataract surgery waiting time at St John of God Midland Public 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 Midland area of Western 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: 23 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 1308 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.6%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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 25 days in 2015–16 to 23 days in 2024–25 — down 8% — while the national median rose from 93 days to 106 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 1.6% 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
St John of God Midland Public Hospital	23 days	1.6%	1308 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	5.1%	12672 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.

Bentley Health ServiceWA · about 14 km away71 days
Royal Perth Hospital Wellington Street CampusWA · about 15 km away93 days
Perth Children's HospitalWA · about 20 km away35 days
Joondalup Health Campus (Public)WA · about 28 km away89 days
Fremantle Hospital and Health ServiceWA · about 30 km away181 days
Northam HospitalWA · about 67 km away27 days
Peel Health CampusWA · about 75 km away48 days
Narrogin HospitalWA · about 159 km away105 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

St John of God Midland Public 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	St John of God Midland Public Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	38	89
2012–13	not reported for this period	45	89
2013–14	not reported for this period	43	79
2014–15	not reported for this period	41	83
2015–16	25	37	93
2016–17	16	51	85
2017–18	17	63	87
2018–19	15	61	84
2019–20	25	59	98
2020–21	26	77	172
2021–22	30	108	158
2022–23	30	117	133
2023–24	18	98	119
2024–25	23	82	106

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

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