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Ophthalmology waiting times at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,997 people were on the Ophthalmology at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
5,997
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.6%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
21
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

21 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12.2 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 7.9% of everyone waiting at North West Anglia 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 6.3 percentage points (55% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.1 points over 3 months (57.5% in March 2026); up 7.4 points over 6 months (54.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.3 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 202555.3%
August 202554.4%
September 202553.5%
October 202554.3%
November 202556.5%
December 202554.2%
January 202658.5%
February 202658%
March 202657.5%
April 202657.6%
May 202660.2%
June 202661.6%

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 North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20258,55255.3%363
August 20258,43354.4%316
September 20258,04953.5%298
October 20257,57454.3%197
November 20257,46356.5%146
December 20257,09654.2%108
January 20266,90958.5%80
February 20266,89158.0%49
March 20266,85557.5%45
April 20266,67857.6%47
May 20266,43160.2%24
June 20265,99761.6%21

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
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.1 mi2,53078%+16.2 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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