Surgery Waits

Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) waiting time at Alice Springs Hospital

The median wait for vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) at this public hospital in the Alice Springs area of Northern Territory was 16 days in 2024–25.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait
16 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed
21 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days
not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 25 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 5 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 36 days in 2017–18 to 16 days in 2024–25 — down 56% — while the national median rose from 21 days to 26 days.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), 2024–25.
Where Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
Alice Springs Hospital16 daysnot published21 surgeries
Northern Territory (all public hospitals)not publishednot published64 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)26 days2.6%3742 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.

How the wait has changed

Median wait for vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy) by financial year at Alice Springs Hospital, compared with Northern Territory and Australiadays0102030402016–172018–192020–212022–232024–25Alice Springs Hospital 16Australia 26
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View these numbers as a table
Median wait in days for Vitrectomy (including buckling/cryotherapy), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference periodAlice Springs Hospital (days)NT (days)Australia (days)
2016–17not publishednot published19
2017–1836not published21
2018–19not publishednot published22
2019–20not publishednot published21
2020–2117not published19
2021–22not publishednot published18
2022–2340not published24
2023–2410not published22
2024–2516not published26

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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