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Ophthalmology waiting times at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 8,002 people were on the Ophthalmology at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (80%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
8,002
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
80.0%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

3 people (0.0%) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.2 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; 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 12% of everyone waiting at Sandwell and West Birmingham 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 4 percentage points (76% to 80%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (78.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (78.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4 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 202576%
August 202575.7%
September 202576.7%
October 202575.3%
November 202577.4%
December 202578.8%
January 202675.2%
February 202673.8%
March 202678.1%
April 202676.7%
May 202677.7%
June 202680%

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 Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20258,59776.0%11
August 20258,60275.7%22
September 20258,75676.7%26
October 20258,52575.3%25
November 20258,45377.4%30
December 20258,22578.8%22
January 20268,14975.2%18
February 20268,15273.8%23
March 20268,06578.1%7
April 20267,85976.7%3
May 20267,74377.7%4
June 20268,00280.0%3

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
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust2.7 mi9,13165%-15 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust6.6 mi93089%+9.3 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust7.1 mi4,73066%-14.4 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust9.7 mi9,47161%-18.7 pp
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust19.9 mi91177%-3 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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