Cataract surgery waiting time at Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]

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 Shepparton area of Victoria was 3 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: 3 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 131 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 172 days in 2019–20 to 3 days in 2024–25 — down 98% — while the national median rose from 98 days to 106 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% 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
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton]	3 days	0.0%	131 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.

The Bendigo HospitalVIC · about 109 km away234 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 135 km away365 days
Sunbury Day HospitalVIC · about 148 km away174 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 148 km away88 days
Broadmeadows Health ServiceVIC · about 153 km away92 days
Yarra Ranges HealthVIC · about 155 km away87 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 158 km away134 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 164 km away211 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	Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	61	89
2012–13	not reported for this period	52	89
2013–14	not reported for this period	41	79
2014–15	not reported for this period	35	83
2015–16	not reported for this period	56	93
2016–17	not published	41	85
2017–18	not reported for this period	40	87
2018–19	not reported for this period	36	84
2019–20	172	49	98
2020–21	143	79	172
2021–22	161	84	158
2022–23	170	77	133
2023–24	167	89	119
2024–25	3	68	106

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

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