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Ophthalmology waiting times at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,051 people were on the Ophthalmology at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
5,051
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
74.3%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
24
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

24 people (0.5%, roughly 1 in 200) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

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 13.4% of everyone waiting at Bolton 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 4.1 percentage points (78% to 74%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (73.0% in March 2026); up 2.2 points over 6 months (72.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4.1 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 202578.4%
August 202576.3%
September 202577.1%
October 202574.5%
November 202572.7%
December 202572.1%
January 202671%
February 202671.8%
March 202673%
April 202675.1%
May 202676.1%
June 202674.3%

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 Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,99578.4%32
August 20253,89076.3%29
September 20253,79677.1%26
October 20253,81574.5%29
November 20253,83972.7%40
December 20253,83672.1%32
January 20263,99971.0%45
February 20264,26571.8%36
March 20264,56073.0%29
April 20264,86175.1%37
May 20264,83776.1%33
June 20265,05174.3%24

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
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi6,27755%-19 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi1,57685%+10.9 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi11,44469%-5.1 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust12.6 mi4,35867%-7.1 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi2,34988%+13.6 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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