Surgery Waits

Retina surgery waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for retina surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 34 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 26 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy)".

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

14 public hospitals in New South Wales reported retina surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy)" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

5 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 26 days marks the national median.

Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) in New South Wales 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 Royal Prince Alfred Hospital 11 days not published 20 surgeries
2 Concord Repatriation Hospital 13 days 0.0% 51 surgeries
3 Kurri Kurri Hospital 15 days 1.1% 275 surgeries
4 Westmead Hospital 19 days 8.4% 214 surgeries
5 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 20 days not published 18 surgeries
6 Royal North Shore Hospital 47 days 14.0% 50 surgeries
7 Liverpool Hospital 58 days 10.9% 128 surgeries
8 Lismore Base Hospital 70 days 6.3% 96 surgeries
9 Sydney Hospital / Sydney Eye Hospital 80 days 0.6% 538 surgeries
unranked Dubbo Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Hawkesbury Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Mudgee Health Service not published not published not published
unranked Shellharbour Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Sydney Children's Hospital not published not published not published

Ranked by area in New South Wales: near Camperdown.

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The median wait for retina surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 34 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Retina surgery waiting times in New South Wales", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/vitrectomy-including-buckling-cryotherapy/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/vitrectomy-including-buckling-cryotherapy/nsw/), 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 New South Wales.