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Ophthalmology waiting times at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,897 people were on the Ophthalmology at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (81%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
3,897
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
81.0%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
9
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

9 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.2 percentage points better than 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 9% of everyone waiting at Royal Cornwall Hospitals 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 6.1 percentage points (75% to 81%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.7 points over 3 months (77.3% in March 2026); up 4.7 points over 6 months (76.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.1 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 202574.9%
August 202573.5%
September 202574.6%
October 202575.8%
November 202576.1%
December 202576.3%
January 202676%
February 202675.8%
March 202677.3%
April 202678%
May 202680.1%
June 202681%

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 Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,54074.9%23
August 20254,59173.5%20
September 20254,36174.6%3
October 20254,55475.8%5
November 20254,59176.1%5
December 20254,52676.3%2
January 20264,40776.0%0
February 20264,42475.8%2
March 20264,32277.3%0
April 20264,18578.0%4
May 20264,17180.1%13
June 20263,89781.0%9

Other NHS trusts offering ophthalmology within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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