Cataract surgery near St Albans
Near St Albans, Broadmeadows Health Service, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for cataract surgery in 2024–25: 92 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
3 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. 1 hospital sits just outside this area, within about 25 km of one of its hospitals, and is included because a referral can cross the line. 1 hospital has no current published median. It is listed last and never ranked; a figure the source withheld reads "not published". 1 children's hospital nearby is left out, because it treats only children. The source publishes this surgery as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)".
Hospitals in or near St Albans
| Rank | Hospital | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadmeadows Health Service | 92 days | 0.3% | Jacana, VIC. Outside this area, about 12 km from Sunshine Hospital. |
| 2 | Sunbury Day Hospital | 174 days | 0.0% | Sunbury, VIC. In this area. |
| 3 | Sunshine Hospital | 211 days | 6.2% | St Albans, VIC. In this area. |
| unranked | Western Hospital [Footscray] | not published | not published | Footscray, VIC. In this area. |
This area covers Sunbury Day Hospital, Sunshine Hospital, Western Hospital [Footscray] and Williamstown Hospital: the hospitals of the source's Local Hospital Network "Western Health (Vic)" within 25 km of Sunshine Hospital. 1 other hospital of the network is farther away and not part of this area. Distances are straight lines between hospital locations, rounded to the nearest kilometre; they are not travel distances. 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 St Albans, Broadmeadows Health Service, just outside the area, had the shortest median wait for cataract surgery in 2024–25: 92 days (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).
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Surgery Waits, "Cataract surgery near St Albans: hospital waits", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/cataract-surgery/near/st-albans/, accessed 28 May 2026.Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/cataract-surgery/near/st-albans/), 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 Victoria hospital for cataract surgery, or every hospital in Western Health.