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Ophthalmology waiting times at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 7,714 people were on the Ophthalmology at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (75%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
7,714
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
74.5%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 12.2% of everyone waiting at Liverpool 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 8.2 percentage points (66% to 75%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (74.1% in March 2026); up 11.3 points over 6 months (63.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.2 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 202566.3%
August 202564.5%
September 202565.2%
October 202563.9%
November 202564.2%
December 202563.2%
January 202662.7%
February 202671.9%
March 202674.1%
April 202674.8%
May 202675.2%
June 202674.5%

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 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,59966.3%7
August 20257,85064.5%7
September 20257,96165.2%18
October 20258,32363.9%17
November 20258,17764.2%11
December 20257,84663.2%1
January 20267,88762.7%3
February 20267,11271.9%1
March 20267,04174.1%1
April 20267,23574.8%1
May 20267,56075.2%0
June 20267,71474.5%1

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 Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust4.2 mi1392%+17.8 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust6.1 mi3,43162%-12.7 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust7.4 mi3,85173%-1.9 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi3,46766%-8 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust14.6 mi2,34988%+13.4 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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