Cataract surgery waiting time at Port Lincoln Health Service

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 Port Lincoln area of South Australia was 17 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: 17 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 274 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 6 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 35 days in 2011–12 to 17 days in 2024–25 — down 51% — while the national median rose from 89 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
Port Lincoln Health Service	17 days	0.0%	274 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.

Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo)SA · about 186 km away21 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 246 km away383 days
Whyalla Hospital and Health ServicesSA · about 246 km away196 days
Flinders Medical CentreSA · about 250 km away48 days
Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 251 km away118 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 260 km away61 days
Port Pirie Regional Health ServiceSA · about 263 km away199 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 266 km away83 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 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	Port Lincoln Health Service (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	35	78	89
2012–13	24	82	89
2013–14	20	78	79
2014–15	24	99	83
2015–16	22	119	93
2016–17	22	93	85
2017–18	30	97	87
2018–19	31	106	84
2019–20	36	107	98
2020–21	27	145	172
2021–22	22	120	158
2022–23	17	75	133
2023–24	16	76	119
2024–25	17	84	106

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

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