Cataract surgery waiting time at The Bendigo Hospital

Half of patients at The Bendigo Hospital waited 234 days or less for cataract surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)". This public hospital is in the Bendigo area of Victoria.

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: 234 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 327 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 16.5%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 104 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 57 days in 2011–12 to 234 days in 2024–25 — up 311% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], about 98 km away, at 21 days. Here, 16.5% 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
The Bendigo Hospital	234 days	16.5%	327 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.

Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], VIC · about 98 km away: 21 days
Sunbury Day Hospital, VIC · about 100 km away: 174 days
Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton], VIC · about 109 km away: 3 days
Broadmeadows Health Service, VIC · about 118 km away: 92 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping], VIC · about 120 km away: 88 days
Sunshine Hospital, VIC · about 122 km away: 211 days
Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville], VIC · about 130 km away: 27 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West], VIC · about 131 km away: 134 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

The Bendigo Hospital
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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	The Bendigo Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	57	61	89
2012–13	37	52	89
2013–14	94	41	79
2014–15	42	35	83
2015–16	29	56	93
2016–17	15	41	85
2017–18	25	40	87
2018–19	41	36	84
2019–20	183	49	98
2020–21	179	79	172
2021–22	109	84	158
2022–23	134	77	133
2023–24	182	89	119
2024–25	234	68	106

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

All surgery at The Bendigo Hospital · Cataract surgery across Australia · Cataract surgery in Victoria · All surgery waits in Victoria