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Cataract surgery waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for cataract surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 68 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.

24 public hospitals in Victoria 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 Victoria 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 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 1 day 8.6% 934 surgeries
2 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 3 days 0.0% 131 surgeries
3 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 21 days 15.3% 111 surgeries
4 Bass Coast Health 27 days 0.3% 594 surgeries
4 Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] 27 days not published 32 surgeries
6 University Hospital Geelong 29 days 0.0% 1750 surgeries
7 The Alfred 36 days 0.0% 1648 surgeries
8 The Royal Victorian Eye & Ear Hospital 48 days 5.2% 5067 surgeries
9 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 64 days 0.0% 748 surgeries
10 Yarra Ranges Health 87 days 0.0% 1284 surgeries
11 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 88 days 0.2% 471 surgeries
11 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 88 days not published 21 surgeries
13 Broadmeadows Health Service 92 days 0.3% 1908 surgeries
14 South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] 97 days 4.9% 494 surgeries
15 Cranbourne Integrated Care Centre 100 days 0.1% 2775 surgeries
16 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 134 days 1.3% 750 surgeries
17 Sunbury Day Hospital 174 days 0.0% 726 surgeries
18 Sunshine Hospital 211 days 6.2% 195 surgeries
19 The Bendigo Hospital 234 days 16.5% 327 surgeries
20 Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] 338 days not published 42 surgeries
21 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 365 days 49.8% 996 surgeries
unranked Frankston Public Surgical Centre not published not published not published
unranked Sandringham Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Western Hospital [Footscray] not published not published not published

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Clayton · near Epping · near St Albans.

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The median wait for cataract surgery in Victoria public hospitals was 68 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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

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