Cataract surgery waiting time at Modbury 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 Modbury area of South Australia was 61 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: 61 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 957 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.2%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 29 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 336 days in 2012–13 to 61 days in 2024–25 — down 82% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Flinders Medical Centre, about 24 km away, at 48 days. Here, 0.2% 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
Modbury Hospital	61 days	0.2%	957 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	84 days	9.0%	9054 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.

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 13 km away118 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 15 km away383 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 24 km away48 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 27 km away83 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 32 km away211 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 50 km away51 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 81 km away17 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 112 km away48 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	Modbury Hospital (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	not reported for this period	78	89
2012–13	336	82	89
2013–14	264	78	79
2014–15	not reported for this period	99	83
2015–16	not reported for this period	119	93
2016–17	not reported for this period	93	85
2017–18	278	97	87
2018–19	305	106	84
2019–20	245	107	98
2020–21	337	145	172
2021–22	321	120	158
2022–23	317	75	133
2023–24	272	76	119
2024–25	61	84	106

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

All surgery at Modbury Hospital · Cataract surgery across Australia · Cataract surgery in South Australia