Surgery Waits

Cataract surgery waiting times in South Australia

The median wait for cataract surgery in South Australia public hospitals was 84 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 106 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)".

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

20 public hospitals in South Australia reported cataract surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

3 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 106 days marks the national median.

Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion) in South Australia public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Ceduna District Health Service 6 days not published 10 surgeries
2 Port Lincoln Health Service 17 days 0.0% 274 surgeries
2 South Coast District Hospital 17 days 5.8% 616 surgeries
4 Northern Yorke Peninsula Health Service (Wallaroo) 21 days 21.6% 348 surgeries
5 Clare Hospital 48 days 0.8% 120 surgeries
5 Flinders Medical Centre 48 days 1.1% 1884 surgeries
7 Angaston District Hospital 51 days 1.3% 236 surgeries
8 Modbury Hospital 61 days 0.2% 957 surgeries
9 Gawler Health Service 83 days 21.4% 481 surgeries
10 Royal Adelaide Hospital 118 days 8.8% 1017 surgeries
11 Port Augusta Hospital and Regional Health Services 119 days 1.0% 191 surgeries
12 Mount Gambier and Districts Health Service 173 days 2.5% 810 surgeries
13 Whyalla Hospital and Health Services 196 days 3.9% 279 surgeries
14 Port Pirie Regional Health Service 199 days 18.0% 344 surgeries
15 Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial Hospital 211 days 0.5% 565 surgeries
16 Riverland General Hospital 229 days 19.4% 310 surgeries
17 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital 383 days 53.6% 603 surgeries
unranked Jamestown Hospital and Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Lyell McEwin Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Women's and Children's Hospital not published not published 7 surgeries

Ranked by area in South Australia: near the Adelaide CBD.

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The median wait for cataract surgery in South Australia public hospitals was 84 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Cataract surgery waiting times in South Australia", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/cataract-surgery/sa/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/cataract-surgery/sa/), 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.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in South Australia.