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Ophthalmology waiting times at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 5,934 people were on the Ophthalmology at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (75%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
5,934
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
74.7%
England: 72.2%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

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 11.6% of everyone waiting at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Ophthalmology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 74.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 77% 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
74.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
80.4% then · change to latest -5.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
76% then · change to latest -1.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
77% then · change to latest -2.4 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
84.2% then · change to latest -9.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202674.7%5,934
July 202676.4%5,967
June 202677.5%6,248
May 202680.4%6,416
April 202680.5%6,173
March 202680.7%6,102
February 202676%6,644
January 202676.7%6,612
December 202576.2%6,509
November 202577%6,339
October 202577.1%6,333
September 202577.5%6,326
August 202577%6,198
July 202578.7%5,844
June 202579.8%5,688
May 202580.3%5,342
April 202578.6%5,397
March 202580.5%5,306
February 202578.6%5,252
January 202577.1%5,508
December 202475.7%5,574
November 202474.8%5,829
October 202477.5%6,046
September 202475.9%6,281
August 202475.6%6,239
July 202477.9%6,278
June 202479.7%6,074
May 202483.3%5,963
April 202484.2%5,682
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
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust21.3 mi13,62959%-15.6 pp
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.2 mi2,44870%-4.3 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust24.2 mi3,42183%+8.1 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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