Cataract surgery waiting time at Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre

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 Cranbourne area of Victoria was 100 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: 100 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 2775 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.1%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 61 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 78 days in 2011–12 to 100 days in 2024–25 — up 28% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is The Alfred, about 40 km away, at 36 days. Here, 0.1% 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
Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre	100 days	0.1%	2775 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	68 days	4.7%	21008 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.

Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 23 km away338 days
The AlfredVIC · about 40 km away36 days
Yarra Ranges HealthVIC · about 40 km away87 days
The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear HospitalVIC · about 43 km away48 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 45 km away134 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 45 km away88 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 46 km away27 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 56 km away88 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 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	Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	78	61	89
2012–13	79	52	89
2013–14	99	41	79
2014–15	76	35	83
2015–16	51	56	93
2016–17	47	41	85
2017–18	49	40	87
2018–19	53	36	84
2019–20	54	49	98
2020–21	125	79	172
2021–22	130	84	158
2022–23	95	77	133
2023–24	95	89	119
2024–25	100	68	106

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

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