Elective surgery
Eye surgery for July 2011–June 2012
Surgery on the eyes is called ophthalmological surgery. This page presents statistics relating to the hospital's performance of elective ophthalmological surgery overall, as well as for a common procedure called a cataract extraction. This procedure removes a lens of the eye affected by a cataract, which is a white substance on the lens that impairs vision. The diseased lens is then replaced with an artificial one in a procedure called 'lens insertion'. This is often done at the same time as the cataract extraction.
Waiting times provide an indication of access to elective surgery. The information
presented here refers to the time spent on a waiting list by people who received
elective surgery in this hospital between 1 July 2011 and 30 June 2012.
Median waiting times for elective surgery
The median waiting time is the number of days within which half of all patients at this hospital received their surgery.
All eye surgery
54 days compared to the national average of 75 days
| Median waiting times (days) for this hospital compared to the national average |
|---|
| Year |
This hospital |
National average |
|
| 2011-12 |
54 days |
75 days |
 |
| 2010-11 |
97 days |
71 days |
 |
| 2009-10 |
113 days |
69 days |
|
Cataract extraction
51 days compared to the national average of 93 days
People waiting more than 365 days for elective surgery
This shows the percentage of people who received elective surgery at this hospital during the 2011-12 year who had been waiting for more than one year (365 days) for their surgery.
All eye surgery
17.4% waited more than 365 days compared to the national average of 3.7%
| Percentage of people waiting more than 365 days at this hospital compared to the national average |
|---|
| Year |
This hospital |
National average |
|
| 2011-12 |
17.4% |
3.7% |
 |
| 2010-11 |
12.3% |
3.6% |
|
| 2009-10 |
0.0% |
4.1% |
 |
Cataract extraction
19.4% waited more than 365 days compared to the national average of 4.0%
Number of elective surgeries
The following graph shows the number of admissions for elective surgery for patients on a waiting list managed by the hospital. It does not include people on the waiting list who were admitted for surgery on an emergency basis, or people who received elective surgery without being placed on the hospital's waiting list.
| Surgical specialty |
Number of surgeries |
| All eye surgery |
155
|
| Cataract extraction |
124
|
155
155
162