Cataract surgery waiting time at Flinders Medical Centre

The median wait for cataract surgery — published by the source as "Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion)" — at this public hospital in the Bedford Park area of South Australia was 48 days in 2024–25.

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

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

Median wait: 48 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 1884 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.1%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 132 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 23 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 41 days in 2011–12 to 48 days in 2024–25 — up 17% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is South Coast District Hospital, about 60 km away, at 17 days. Here, 1.1% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 11.5%.

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How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion), 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Flinders Medical Centre	48 days	1.1%	1884 surgeries
South Australia (all public hospitals)	84 days	9.0%	9054 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	106 days	11.5%	87841 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

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

Royal Adelaide HospitalSA · about 11 km away118 days
The Queen Elizabeth HospitalSA · about 16 km away383 days
Modbury HospitalSA · about 24 km away61 days
Mount Barker District Soldiers' Memorial HospitalSA · about 28 km away211 days
Gawler Health ServiceSA · about 51 km away83 days
South Coast District HospitalSA · about 60 km away17 days
Angaston District HospitalSA · about 73 km away51 days
Clare HospitalSA · about 133 km away48 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Cataract extraction (with or without intra-ocular lens insertion), by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Flinders Medical Centre (days)	SA (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	41	78	89
2012–13	49	82	89
2013–14	72	78	79
2014–15	90	99	83
2015–16	148	119	93
2016–17	132	93	85
2017–18	135	97	87
2018–19	180	106	84
2019–20	152	107	98
2020–21	237	145	172
2021–22	237	120	158
2022–23	119	75	133
2023–24	48	76	119
2024–25	48	84	106

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

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