Cataract surgery waiting time at Ceduna District Health 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 Thevenard area of South Australia was 6 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: 6 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 10 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 2 days in 2022–23 to 6 days in 2024–25 — up 200% — while the national median fell from 133 days to 106 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
Ceduna District Health Service	6 days	not published	10 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	84 days	9.0%	9054 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.

Port Lincoln Health ServiceSA · about 353 km away17 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 380 km away196 days
Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health ServicesSA · about 388 km away119 days
Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)SA · about 421 km away21 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 422 km away199 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 499 km away48 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.

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	Ceduna District Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	78	89
2012–13	not reported for this period	82	89
2013–14	not reported for this period	78	79
2014–15	not reported for this period	99	83
2015–16	not reported for this period	119	93
2016–17	not reported for this period	93	85
2017–18	not reported for this period	97	87
2018–19	not reported for this period	106	84
2019–20	not reported for this period	107	98
2020–21	not published	145	172
2021–22	not published	120	158
2022–23	2	75	133
2023–24	1	76	119
2024–25	6	84	106

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

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