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Ophthalmology waiting times at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 8,979 people were on the Ophthalmology at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
8,979
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.3%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
295
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

295 people (3.3%, roughly 1 in 30) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.5 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 10.7% of everyone waiting at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 3.5 percentage points (66% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (63.7% in March 2026); down 4.2 points over 6 months (66.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -3.5 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 202565.8%
August 202564.1%
September 202563.5%
October 202564.8%
November 202565.7%
December 202566.5%
January 202665%
February 202663.9%
March 202663.7%
April 202664.2%
May 202664.9%
June 202662.3%

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 Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20258,32465.8%196
August 20258,44664.1%231
September 20258,27363.5%219
October 20258,08064.8%215
November 20257,90265.7%208
December 20257,86866.5%187
January 20267,73965.0%201
February 20267,90763.9%212
March 20268,27063.7%226
April 20269,12264.2%232
May 20269,23464.9%265
June 20268,97962.3%295

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
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust17.5 mi3,04579%+17 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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