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Ophthalmology waiting times at Barts Health NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,123 people were on the Ophthalmology at Barts Health NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Barts Health NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
6,123
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.0%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.0%) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.8 percentage points behind the England figure 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 5% of everyone waiting at Barts Health NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 7.1 percentage points (75% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (67.8% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (69.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -7.1 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 202575.1%
August 202575.8%
September 202574.2%
October 202573.4%
November 202570.6%
December 202569.5%
January 202667.8%
February 202667.1%
March 202667.8%
April 202668%
May 202667.9%
June 202668%

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 Barts Health NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,70875.1%15
August 20254,73575.8%16
September 20254,92674.2%11
October 20255,46273.4%15
November 20255,87770.6%8
December 20256,04269.5%18
January 20266,06867.8%20
February 20265,87967.1%9
March 20265,58667.8%3
April 20265,70268.0%5
May 20265,91767.9%2
June 20266,12368.0%2

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
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust1.6 mi39,64185%+16.9 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust3 mi3,30882%+13.6 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.8 mi12,74264%-4 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust4.9 mi1,13381%+12.9 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust5.1 mi5,23678%+9.6 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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