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Ophthalmology waiting times at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,277 people were on the Ophthalmology at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
6,277
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.3%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
206
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

206 people (3.3%, roughly 1 in 30) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.5 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 4.7% of everyone waiting at Northern Care Alliance 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 11.1 percentage points (44% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5 points over 3 months (50.3% in March 2026); up 11.8 points over 6 months (43.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +11.1 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 202544.2%
August 202542.1%
September 202543.3%
October 202546.4%
November 202545.7%
December 202543.5%
January 202641.2%
February 202643.8%
March 202650.3%
April 202652.4%
May 202656%
June 202655.3%

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 Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,82044.2%142
August 20256,87942.1%138
September 20257,14343.3%129
October 20257,07746.4%141
November 20257,08545.7%168
December 20256,94043.5%169
January 20266,79341.2%269
February 20266,85043.8%365
March 20266,48650.3%338
April 20266,25652.4%302
May 20265,99756.0%230
June 20266,27755.3%206

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
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi11,44469%+13.9 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi5,05174%+19 pp
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi4,38462%+7.2 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi1,57685%+29.9 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi2,34988%+32.6 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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