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Ophthalmology waiting times at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,841 people were on the Ophthalmology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (84%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
4,841
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
83.7%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.0%) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.9 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 5.6% of everyone waiting at Leeds 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 improved by 5.7 percentage points (78% to 84%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (82.0% in March 2026); up 5.6 points over 6 months (78.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.7 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 202578%
August 202578%
September 202578.8%
October 202578.8%
November 202579.5%
December 202578.1%
January 202677.9%
February 202679.7%
March 202682%
April 202683.7%
May 202684.1%
June 202683.7%

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 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,77578.0%15
August 20255,07478.0%18
September 20255,02378.8%14
October 20255,21078.8%13
November 20255,05979.5%14
December 20254,60978.1%11
January 20264,77977.9%9
February 20264,59379.7%6
March 20264,58382.0%3
April 20264,89783.7%0
May 20264,91484.1%2
June 20264,84183.7%2

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
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust8 mi4,84069%-14.9 pp
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.1 mi2,39075%-8.4 pp
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust13 mi1,61581%-3.1 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust15.9 mi2,48990%+6.5 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust17.1 mi3,45471%-13.2 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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