Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) waiting times

Public hospital waiting times for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), nationally and by state.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Across Australia, the median wait for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) in public hospitals was 26 days in 2024–25, from 3742 surgeries. 2.6% of people waited more than 365 days. 25 public hospitals published a median wait for it.

State by state

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

Victoria20 days
South Australia28 days
Western Australia32 days
New South Wales34 days
Australian Capital Territorynot published
Northern Territorynot published
Queenslandnot published

Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) in public hospitals by state and territory, 2024–25. States with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank	State or territory	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
1	Victoria	20 days	1.5%	1241 surgeries
2	South Australia	28 days	3.5%	400 surgeries
3	Western Australia	32 days	1.1%	566 surgeries
4	New South Wales	34 days	3.6%	1400 surgeries
unranked	Australian Capital Territory	not published	not published	56 surgeries
unranked	Northern Territory	not published	not published	64 surgeries
unranked	Queensland	not published	not published	15 surgeries

How the wait has changed

Australia
VIC
SA
WA

View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Australia (days)	VIC (days)	SA (days)	WA (days)
2016–17	19	13	14	28
2017–18	21	16	27	27
2018–19	22	16	19	25
2019–20	21	13	27	25
2020–21	19	12	23	24
2021–22	18	14	17	26
2022–23	24	18	29	34
2023–24	22	18	22	35
2024–25	26	20	28	32

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

The source calls this collection “elective surgery”. This site calls it planned surgery, because the surgery is planned in advance rather than optional — the methodology explains the wording.