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Cataract Surgery

Service/Procedure Summary

Cataract surgery is the removal of a clouded lens (or cataract) from the eye to improve vision. The wait time shown is for patients who had their first cataract surgery.

Consult

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

287 days

Surgery

Nova Scotia

90% of people served within ?

270 days

Wait Times

90%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	138 days	54 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	308 days	343 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	345 days	133 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	231 days	282 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	97 days	225 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	126 days	342 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	345 days	115 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	193 days	252 days

50%

Community	Facility	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Sydney	Cape Breton Regional Hospital	45 days	20 days
Truro	Colchester East Hants Health Centre	275 days	266 days
Amherst	Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre	285 days	51 days
Halifax	IWK Health Centre	---	---
Halifax	QEII Health Sciences Centre (All Sites)	95 days	62 days
Middleton	Soldiers Memorial Hospital	33 days	99 days
Bridgewater	South Shore Regional Hospital	95 days	244 days
Antigonish	St. Martha's Regional Hospital	153 days	55 days
Yarmouth	Yarmouth Regional Hospital	146 days	179 days

Wait Times by Surgeon

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Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Alexander Tan	Halifax	167 days	160 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	149 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	208 days	395 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	182 days	142 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	368 days	379 days
Veronique Promelle	Halifax	---	---
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	345 days	126 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	42 days	86 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	111 days	67 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	210 days	253 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	70 days	92 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	243 days	227 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	245 days	147 days
Lesya Shuba	Amherst	658 days	181 days
David Comstock	Middleton	181 days	246 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	147 days	156 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	118 days	323 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	461 days	88 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	210 days	344 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	491 days	113 days
Stanley George	Halifax	156 days	190 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	201 days	387 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	188 days	327 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	203 days	248 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	141 days	295 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	125 days	145 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	102 days	176 days
Saqib Utman	Sydney	182 days	96 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	286 days	351 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	513 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	228 days	119 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	150 days	211 days
Hiron Kettledas	Sydney	172 days	100 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	462 days	329 days
Kristine L Mayer	Sydney	113 days	90 days

50%

Surgeon	Community	Consult Wait Time	Surgery Wait Time
Alexander Tan	Halifax	89 days	44 days
Carolina Lampert Monte Francisconi	Halifax	---	15 days
Jeremy Murphy	Halifax	123 days	162 days
Darrell Lewis	Halifax	107 days	69 days
Ahsen Ayyaz Hussain	Halifax	153 days	162 days
Veronique Promelle	Halifax	---	---
Mustafa Kapasi	Antigonish	263 days	68 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	28 days	70 days
Curtis Archibald	Halifax	51 days	25 days
Brennan Eadie	Halifax	72 days	107 days
Anu Mishra	Halifax	28 days	63 days
Paul Cheevers	Yarmouth	148 days	119 days
Daniel Michael O'Brien	Halifax	52 days	29 days
Lesya Shuba	Amherst	261 days	52 days
David Comstock	Middleton	48 days	132 days
Paul E Rafuse	Halifax	48 days	52 days
Alexandre Guy William de Saint Sardos	Bridgewater	68 days	237 days
Jennifer Gao	Antigonish	202 days	41 days
John D Dickinson	Halifax	117 days	180 days
Claire Hamilton	Antigonish	183 days	71 days
Stanley George	Halifax	98 days	103 days
Jayavani Myneni	Middleton	50 days	176 days
Rudra Rishi Gupta	Halifax	84 days	229 days
Amr M Zaki	Halifax	113 days	120 days
Colin Mann	Bridgewater	113 days	246 days
Dilys Oladiwura	Antigonish	59 days	87 days
Marcelo Nicolela	Halifax	49 days	116 days
Saqib Utman	Sydney	17 days	17 days
Jamie Rogers	Truro	215 days	292 days
Arif Samad	Halifax	---	83 days
Pieter Oosthuizen	Sydney	96 days	43 days
Robert Scott	Middleton	42 days	99 days
Hiron Kettledas	Sydney	50 days	29 days
Christopher Seamone	Halifax	204 days	194 days
Kristine L Mayer	Sydney	41 days	33 days

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