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Ophthalmology waiting times at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,531 people were on the Ophthalmology at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
5,531
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
69.3%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
12 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 11.6% of everyone waiting at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 4.8 percentage points (65% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.8 points over 3 months (73.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (69.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.8 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 202564.5%
August 202565.3%
September 202567.7%
October 202569.8%
November 202572.4%
December 202569.1%
January 202671.1%
February 202672.7%
March 202673.1%
April 202670.5%
May 202669.8%
June 202669.3%

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 Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,80164.5%19
August 20255,69365.3%19
September 20255,74967.7%13
October 20255,38069.8%10
November 20255,14472.4%4
December 20255,14669.1%11
January 20264,91171.1%9
February 20265,09972.7%8
March 20264,95073.1%0
April 20265,21270.5%0
May 20265,39469.8%4
June 20265,53169.3%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
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust9.4 mi3,39263%-6.6 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.7 mi2,94976%+6.6 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust14.2 mi1,45087%+17.6 pp
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust17.2 mi3,28568%-1.2 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust20.1 mi4,94568%-1.1 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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