Cataract surgery waiting time at Royal Hobart 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 Hobart area of Tasmania was 46 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: 46 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 926 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 3.3%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 22 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 423 days in 2011–12 to 46 days in 2024–25 — down 89% — while the national median rose from 89 days to 106 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Bass Coast Health, about 497 km away, at 27 days. Here, 3.3% of people waited more than 365 days for this surgery; nationally it was 11.5%.

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.

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
Royal Hobart Hospital	46 days	3.3%	926 surgeries
Tasmania (all public hospitals)	99 days	4.9%	2623 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	68 days	4.7%	21008 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.

Launceston General HospitalTAS · about 160 km away140 days
Mersey Community HospitalTAS · about 198 km away176 days
Bass Coast HealthVIC · about 497 km away27 days
Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon]VIC · about 523 km away1 day
West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul]VIC · about 537 km away64 days
Cranbourne Integrated Care CentreVIC · about 558 km away100 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 581 km away338 days
University Hospital GeelongVIC · about 582 km away29 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you.

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	Royal Hobart Hospital (days)	TAS (days)	Australia (days)
2011–12	423	244	89
2012–13	158	276	89
2013–14	91	167	79
2014–15	202	273	83
2015–16	137	301	93
2016–17	110	185	85
2017–18	159	146	87
2018–19	137	173	84
2019–20	89	105	98
2020–21	63	214	172
2021–22	42	123	158
2022–23	30	77	133
2023–24	26	98	119
2024–25	46	99	106

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

All surgery at Royal Hobart Hospital · Cataract surgery across Australia · Cataract surgery in Tasmania