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Ophthalmology waiting times at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,489 people were on the Ophthalmology at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (90%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
2,489
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
90.2%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
7 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 16.4 percentage points better than 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 7% of everyone waiting at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 4.9 percentage points (85% to 90%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (89.3% in March 2026); down 2.1 points over 6 months (92.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.9 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 202585.3%
August 202585.8%
September 202589.3%
October 202591.2%
November 202591.4%
December 202592.3%
January 202691.6%
February 202689.9%
March 202689.3%
April 202689.7%
May 202690.8%
June 202690.2%

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 Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,31785.3%6
August 20252,16685.8%9
September 20252,10389.3%10
October 20252,18991.2%8
November 20252,35091.4%8
December 20252,24092.3%7
January 20262,20291.6%2
February 20262,31389.9%0
March 20262,30589.3%0
April 20262,49989.7%0
May 20262,35990.8%0
June 20262,48990.2%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 Trust10.4 mi2,39075%-14.9 pp
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust13.7 mi4,84069%-21.4 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.6 mi3,45471%-19.7 pp
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15.9 mi4,84184%-6.5 pp
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust17.8 mi53078%-12.5 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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