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Ophthalmology waiting times at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,618 people were on the Ophthalmology at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
2,618
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
79.3%
England: 72.2%
Over 52 weeks
29
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

29 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.1 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 4.5% of everyone waiting at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Ophthalmology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 79.3% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 70.2% 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
79.3%
3 months earlier · May 2026
74.2% then · change to latest +5.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
73.4% then · change to latest +5.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
70.2% then · change to latest +9.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
48.1% then · change to latest +31.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202679.3%2,618
July 202678.2%2,615
June 202674.4%2,594
May 202674.2%2,650
April 202673%2,693
March 202675.7%2,836
February 202673.4%2,707
January 202672.2%2,818
December 202571.6%2,977
November 202572.1%3,025
October 202571.2%3,016
September 202569.1%3,070
August 202570.2%3,082
July 202572.2%2,999
June 202571.4%2,997
May 202572.7%3,120
April 202574.7%3,128
March 202575.5%3,202
February 202575.4%3,180
January 202567.2%2,868
December 202462.9%3,012
November 202457.5%3,601
October 202453.3%4,252
September 202449.1%4,460
August 202448.2%4,673
July 202451.5%5,003
June 202454%5,106
May 202455.7%5,210
April 202448.1%5,518
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
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi3,86370%-9.8 pp
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust16.6 mi3,02970%-9.3 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust20.7 mi3,22762%-17.8 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust22.9 mi3,85367%-12.7 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.4 mi4,12857%-22.7 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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