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Ophthalmology waiting times at James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,158 people were on the Ophthalmology at James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
3,158
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.2%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
83
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

83 people (2.6%, roughly 1 in 38) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10.6 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 10.1% of everyone waiting at James Paget 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 7.3 percentage points (56% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2 points over 3 months (61.2% in March 2026); up 4.4 points over 6 months (58.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.3 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 202555.9%
August 202554%
September 202553.4%
October 202554.1%
November 202557.9%
December 202558.8%
January 202660.3%
February 202661.4%
March 202661.2%
April 202661%
May 202661.8%
June 202663.2%

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 James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,59955.9%110
August 20253,64354.0%117
September 20253,71153.4%166
October 20253,58254.1%149
November 20253,50757.9%112
December 20253,38058.8%88
January 20263,23460.3%94
February 20263,22261.4%69
March 20263,28961.2%26
April 20263,37061.0%74
May 20263,38161.8%108
June 20263,15863.2%83

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
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi6,35366%+3.1 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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