Cataract surgery waiting time at Derby Hospital

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 Derby area of Western Australia was 82 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: 82 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 84 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 2.4%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 42 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 110 days in 2011–12 to 82 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 Hedland Health Campus, about 632 km away, at 36 days. Here, 2.4% 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
Derby Hospital	82 days	2.4%	84 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)	162 days	20.4%	921 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)	82 days	5.1%	12672 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.

Broome HospitalWA · about 165 km away269 days
Kununurra HospitalWA · about 570 km away258 days
Hedland Health CampusWA · about 632 km away36 days
Karratha Health CampusWA · about 809 km away39 days
Royal Darwin HospitalNT · about 954 km away155 days
Palmerston Regional HospitalNT · about 957 km away161 days
Katherine HospitalNT · about 977 km away86 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 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

Derby Hospital
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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	Derby Hospital (days)	WA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	110	38	89
2012–13	90	45	89
2013–14	71	43	79
2014–15	48	41	83
2015–16	136	37	93
2016–17	168	51	85
2017–18	114	63	87
2018–19	234	61	84
2019–20	328	59	98
2020–21	284	77	172
2021–22	195	108	158
2022–23	126	117	133
2023–24	101	98	119
2024–25	82	82	106

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

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