Cataract surgery waiting time at Kurri Kurri 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 Weston area of New South Wales was 327 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: 327 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 2294 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 25.5%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 117 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 188 days in 2011–12 to 327 days in 2024–25 — up 74% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Belmont Hospital, about 28 km away, at 111 days. Here, 25.5% 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
Kurri Kurri Hospital	327 days	25.5%	2294 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	268 days	22.0%	32695 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.

Belmont HospitalNSW · about 28 km away111 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 49 km away93 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 67 km away183 days
Muswellbrook HospitalNSW · about 82 km away62 days
Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial HospitalNSW · about 101 km away67 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 106 km away77 days
Royal North Shore HospitalNSW · about 114 km away354 days
The Children's Hospital at WestmeadNSW · about 117 km away44 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	Kurri Kurri Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	188	233	89
2012–13	223	238	89
2013–14	179	218	79
2014–15	139	221	83
2015–16	225	240	93
2016–17	163	224	85
2017–18	189	223	87
2018–19	186	245	84
2019–20	155	286	98
2020–21	287	290	172
2021–22	272	278	158
2022–23	298	282	133
2023–24	241	262	119
2024–25	327	268	106

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

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