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Ophthalmology waiting times at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,750 people were on the Ophthalmology at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (59%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
6,750
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
58.7%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
139
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

139 people (2.1%, roughly 1 in 48) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 15.1 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 11.7% of everyone waiting at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 4.9 percentage points (64% to 59%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (59.1% in March 2026); down 4.5 points over 6 months (63.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4.9 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 202563.6%
August 202564.8%
September 202565%
October 202565.4%
November 202565.9%
December 202563.2%
January 202660%
February 202659.7%
March 202659.1%
April 202659.4%
May 202660.6%
June 202658.7%

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 Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,30263.6%61
August 20256,32564.8%44
September 20256,39965.0%35
October 20256,43465.4%36
November 20256,46165.9%40
December 20256,38763.2%43
January 20266,35060.0%55
February 20266,50059.7%118
March 20266,51559.1%152
April 20266,74559.4%158
May 20266,75860.6%153
June 20266,75058.7%139

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
Isle of Wight NHS Trust14 mi2,30959%+0.1 pp
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust16.9 mi6,87070%+11.8 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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