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Ophthalmology waiting times at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,157 people were on the Ophthalmology at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (67%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
4,157
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
67.1%
England: 72.2%
Over 52 weeks
19
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 5.1 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 7.5% of everyone waiting at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Ophthalmology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Ophthalmology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 67.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 70% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
67.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
65.8% then · change to latest +1.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
64.6% then · change to latest +2.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
70% then · change to latest -3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
64.4% then · change to latest +2.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202667.1%4,157
July 202668.3%4,092
June 202667.8%3,944
May 202665.8%3,747
April 202666.5%3,747
March 202666.2%3,533
February 202664.6%3,366
January 202665.5%3,355
December 202568.3%3,351
November 202568.8%3,273
October 202569.2%3,333
September 202568.4%3,315
August 202570%3,392
July 202571.2%3,349
June 202571.2%3,281
May 202568.6%3,539
April 202563%3,475
March 202559.7%3,676
February 202558.7%3,896
January 202558.8%3,952
December 202459.3%3,971
November 202458.2%4,097
October 202459.6%4,077
September 202458.3%3,903
August 202458.6%3,987
July 202463%3,964
June 202464.7%3,803
May 202464.9%3,786
April 202464.4%3,907
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi2,30276%+8.6 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust16.2 mi3,48768%+1.1 pp
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust19.2 mi5,11466%-0.7 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.5 mi2,24168%+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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