Cataract surgery waiting time at Bourke Multi Purpose Service

The median wait for cataract surgery — published by the source as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)" — at this public hospital in the Bourke area of New South Wales was 238 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 238 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 155 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.9%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 106 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 319 days in 2011–12 to 238 days in 2024–25 — down 25% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Dubbo Hospital, about 349 km away, at 201 days. Here, 3.9% 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
Bourke Multi Purpose Service	238 days	3.9%	155 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	268 days	22.0%	32695 surgeries
Queensland (all public hospitals)	82 days	1.9%	8868 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.

Dubbo HospitalNSW · about 349 km away201 days
Moree HospitalNSW · about 382 km away217 days
Lachlan Health Service - ForbesNSW · about 416 km away182 days
Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 444 km away138 days
Orange Health ServiceNSW · about 466 km away335 days
Griffith Base HospitalNSW · about 466 km away90 days
Broken Hill HospitalNSW · about 475 km away222 days
Roma HospitalQLD · about 480 km away114 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

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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	Bourke Multi Purpose Service (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	319	233	89
2012–13	290	238	89
2013–14	344	218	79
2014–15	257	221	83
2015–16	162	240	93
2016–17	151	224	85
2017–18	131	223	87
2018–19	238	245	84
2019–20	266	286	98
2020–21	287	290	172
2021–22	328	278	158
2022–23	202	282	133
2023–24	252	262	119
2024–25	238	268	106

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

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