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title: "Cataract surgery near the Gold Coast"
description: "Public hospitals in or near the Gold Coast ranked by median wait for cataract surgery, 2024–25. Shortest wait: 69 days."
url: "https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/cataract-surgery/near/gold-coast/"
---

# Cataract surgery near the Gold Coast

Near the Gold Coast, [Gold Coast University Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/gold-coast-university-hospital/cataract-surgery/) had the shortest median wait for cataract surgery in 2024–25: **69 days** (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

2 public hospitals are ranked here by the median wait the source published for cataract surgery, shortest first, and by nothing else. Every hospital listed is within 120 km of every other. The source publishes this surgery as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)".

## Hospitals in or near the Gold Coast

Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) at public hospitals in or near the Gold Coast, 2024–25, by median wait. Hospitals with the same median share a rank. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.

| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Gold Coast University Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/gold-coast-university-hospital/cataract-surgery/) | 69 days | 1.3% | Gold Coast, QLD. In this area. |
| 2 | [Robina Hospital](https://surgerywaits.au/hospital/robina-hospital/cataract-surgery/) | 77 days | 0.9% | Robina, QLD. In this area. |

This area covers Gold Coast University Hospital and Robina Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Gold Coast". A shorter median does not mean a hospital will see you sooner: your urgency category and your specialist decide that.

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> Near the Gold Coast, Gold Coast University Hospital had the shortest median wait for cataract surgery in 2024–25: 69 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Cataract surgery near the Gold Coast: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/cataract-surgery/near/gold-coast/, accessed 28 May 2026.
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Attribution: Surgery Waits ([https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/cataract-surgery/near/gold-coast/](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/cataract-surgery/near/gold-coast/)), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

## What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

See [every Queensland hospital for cataract surgery](https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/cataract-surgery/qld/), or every hospital in [Gold Coast](https://surgerywaits.au/health-service/gold-coast/).

## Before you use these figures

Surgery Waits is not medical advice. It republishes official statistics about waiting times that have already happened, and it does not recommend any hospital, doctor or treatment. Your general practitioner (GP) and your treating specialist are the right people to help you decide what is appropriate for you.

**In an emergency call 000.**

Waiting-time figures: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals, licensed under [CC BY 3.0 AU](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/). Quarterly state figures: Queensland Health. Suburb and locality data: Australian Bureau of Statistics. Both licensed under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Surgery Waits is not connected with any of these organisations.

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