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Ophthalmology waiting times at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,840 people were on the Ophthalmology at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
4,840
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.8%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
16
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

16 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5 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 8.7% of everyone waiting at Mid Yorkshire Teaching 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 8.6 percentage points (60% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (70.1% in March 2026); up 10.8 points over 6 months (58.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.6 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 202560.2%
August 202561%
September 202561%
October 202560.1%
November 202560.4%
December 202558%
January 202660%
February 202664.5%
March 202670.1%
April 202670.5%
May 202670.6%
June 202668.8%

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 Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,23760.2%45
August 20255,25461.0%42
September 20255,16761.0%29
October 20254,92760.1%26
November 20255,00360.4%27
December 20254,85358.0%19
January 20264,55360.0%21
February 20264,67464.5%28
March 20264,84670.1%24
April 20264,77670.5%21
May 20264,90470.6%26
June 20264,84068.8%16

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
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust8 mi4,84184%+14.9 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust9.2 mi3,45471%+1.7 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust13.7 mi2,48990%+21.4 pp
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.8 mi2,39075%+6.5 pp
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust19.2 mi3,94468%-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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