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Ophthalmology waiting times at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,248 people were on the Ophthalmology at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (78%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
6,248
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
77.5%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 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 12.3% of everyone waiting at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (79% to 78%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.2 points over 3 months (80.7% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (76.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -1.2 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 202578.7%
August 202577%
September 202577.5%
October 202577.1%
November 202577%
December 202576.2%
January 202676.7%
February 202676%
March 202680.7%
April 202680.5%
May 202680.4%
June 202677.5%

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 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,84478.7%0
August 20256,19877.0%0
September 20256,32677.5%0
October 20256,33377.1%0
November 20256,33977.0%0
December 20256,50976.2%0
January 20266,61276.7%0
February 20266,64476.0%0
March 20266,10280.7%1
April 20266,17380.5%0
May 20266,41680.4%0
June 20266,24877.5%0

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 mi13,67360%-17.3 pp
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.2 mi2,33872%-5.3 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust24.2 mi3,96787%+9.1 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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