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Ophthalmology waiting times at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,131 people were on the Ophthalmology at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
4,131
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.7%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
181
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

181 people (4.4%, roughly 1 in 23) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 19.1 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 11.4% of everyone waiting at Milton Keynes University Hospital 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 15.6 percentage points (39% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.7 points over 3 months (51.0% in March 2026); up 5.6 points over 6 months (49.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +15.6 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 202539.1%
August 202536.5%
September 202538.8%
October 202544.6%
November 202548.2%
December 202549.1%
January 202646.3%
February 202647.2%
March 202651%
April 202652.4%
May 202652%
June 202654.7%

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 Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,98239.1%449
August 20254,15236.5%459
September 20254,16838.8%403
October 20254,03144.6%344
November 20254,23648.2%234
December 20254,09549.1%192
January 20264,23846.3%267
February 20264,56547.2%323
March 20264,55751.0%247
April 20264,44752.4%220
May 20264,35152.0%222
June 20264,13154.7%181

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
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi3,28568%+13.4 pp
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust15.8 mi3,45380%+25.1 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust23.4 mi2,59474%+19.7 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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