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Ophthalmology waiting times at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 530 people were on the Ophthalmology at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (78%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
530
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
77.7%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 3.7% of everyone waiting at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 10.3 percentage points (88% to 78%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 6.4 points over 3 months (84.1% in March 2026); down 7.3 points over 6 months (85.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -10.3 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202588%
August 202587.1%
September 202586%
October 202584%
November 202583.6%
December 202585%
January 202682.9%
February 202683.5%
March 202684.1%
April 202683.2%
May 202680%
June 202677.7%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Ophthalmology figures at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202579188.0%0
August 202573687.1%0
September 202564386.0%0
October 202564584.0%0
November 202557283.6%0
December 202563385.0%0
January 202667282.9%0
February 202667783.5%0
March 202662384.1%0
April 202660183.2%0
May 202655080.0%0
June 202653077.7%0

Other NHS trusts offering ophthalmology within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Ophthalmology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust9.3 mi2,39075%-2.4 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust17.8 mi2,48990%+12.5 pp
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust19.1 mi4,84184%+6 pp
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust19.3 mi1,61581%+2.9 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust23.3 mi4,35867%-10.5 pp

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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