Surgery Waits

Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) waiting time at Geraldton Hospital

The median wait for vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) at this public hospital in the Beachlands area of Western Australia was 34 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait
34 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
25 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 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 16 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 43 days in 2021–22 to 34 days in 2024–25 — down 21% — while the national median rose from 18 days to 26 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, about 373 km away, at 25 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Geraldton Hospital34 daysnot published25 surgeries
Western Australia (all public hospitals)32 days1.1%566 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days2.6%3742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 26 days marks the national median.

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.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) by financial year at Geraldton Hospital, compared with Western Australia and Australiadays0132538502016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Geraldton Hospital 34WA 32Australia 26
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodGeraldton Hospital (days)WA (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not reported for this period2819
2017–18not reported for this period2721
2018–19not reported for this period2522
2019–20not reported for this period2521
2020–21not reported for this period2419
2021–22432618
2022–2373424
2023–24283522
2024–25343226

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

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