Cataract surgery waiting time at Muswellbrook Hospital

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 Muswellbrook area of New South Wales was 62 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: 62 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 261 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 0.0%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 30 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has risen from 19 days in 2011–12 to 62 days in 2024–25 — up 226% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period. Here, 0.0% 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
Muswellbrook Hospital	62 days	0.0%	261 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	268 days	22.0%	32695 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.

Kurri Kurri HospitalNSW · about 82 km away327 days
Gloucester Soldiers' Memorial HospitalNSW · about 103 km away67 days
Belmont HospitalNSW · about 110 km away111 days
Wyong HospitalNSW · about 123 km away93 days
Mudgee Health ServiceNSW · about 129 km away138 days
Tamworth HospitalNSW · about 132 km away331 days
Gosford HospitalNSW · about 135 km away183 days
Hawkesbury HospitalNSW · about 150 km away77 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	Muswellbrook Hospital (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	19	233	89
2012–13	53	238	89
2013–14	33	218	79
2014–15	32	221	83
2015–16	20	240	93
2016–17	35	224	85
2017–18	21	223	87
2018–19	33	245	84
2019–20	39	286	98
2020–21	48	290	172
2021–22	30	278	158
2022–23	103	282	133
2023–24	49	262	119
2024–25	62	268	106

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

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