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Ophthalmology waiting times at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,120 people were on the Ophthalmology at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
4,120
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
69.3%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
27
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

27 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) 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 6.9% of everyone waiting at Cambridge University Hospitals 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 14.1 percentage points (55% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.2 points over 3 months (67.1% in March 2026); up 13.4 points over 6 months (55.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +14.1 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 202555.2%
August 202553.8%
September 202553.9%
October 202555.2%
November 202556.1%
December 202555.9%
January 202659.3%
February 202662.9%
March 202667.1%
April 202667.5%
May 202669.9%
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 Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,50655.2%106
August 20255,33253.8%132
September 20255,11453.9%133
October 20254,92955.2%123
November 20254,85456.1%123
December 20254,77355.9%130
January 20264,45959.3%100
February 20264,28662.9%60
March 20264,13867.1%28
April 20264,23167.5%39
May 20264,15769.9%43
June 20264,12069.3%27

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
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust22.9 mi2,59474%+5.1 pp
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi2,37073%+3.2 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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