Cataract surgery facts & figures 

  1. On average, cataract surgery lasts between 10 and 20 minutes
  2. Nine in 10 people are able to go home the same day
  3. Six weeks is the average time between diagnosis and cataract surgery
  4. 60 is the average age of a cataract patient in the UK
  5. 300,000 cataract operations are performed every year by the NHS
 
 
 

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