Surgery Waits

Cataract surgery waiting time at Bowral Hospital

Half of patients at Bowral Hospital waited 204 days or less for cataract surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)". This public hospital is in the Bowral area of New South Wales.

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
204 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
489 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 92 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 261 days in 2011–12 to 204 days in 2024–25 — down 22% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Goulburn Base Hospital, about 71 km away, at 169 days. Here, 3.9% 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
Bowral Hospital204 days3.9%489 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)268 days22.0%32695 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)106 days11.5%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.

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

How the wait has changed

Median wait for cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) by financial year at Bowral Hospital, compared with New South Wales and Australiadays01002003004002011–122014–152017–182020–212023–242024–25Bowral Hospital 204NSW 268Australia 106
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 periodBowral Hospital (days)NSW (days)Australia (days)
2011–1226123389
2012–1327723889
2013–1430221879
2014–1525322183
2015–1631924093
2016–1722422485
2017–1820222387
2018–1931724584
2019–2034428698
2020–21349290172
2021–22372278158
2022–23358282133
2023–24252262119
2024–25204268106

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

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