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Ophthalmology waiting times at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,384 people were on the Ophthalmology at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
4,384
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.5%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
26
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

26 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.3 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 12.7% of everyone waiting at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 12.5 percentage points (75% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 8 points over 3 months (70.5% in March 2026); down 14.2 points over 6 months (76.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -12.5 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 202575%
August 202575.2%
September 202576.6%
October 202578.5%
November 202576.2%
December 202576.7%
January 202675.1%
February 202672.4%
March 202670.5%
April 202667.6%
May 202664.9%
June 202662.5%

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 Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,02275.0%10
August 20252,13375.2%9
September 20252,33476.6%20
October 20252,52878.5%37
November 20252,81876.2%46
December 20252,87676.7%40
January 20263,21075.1%26
February 20263,37172.4%22
March 20263,66770.5%13
April 20263,92067.6%14
May 20264,11464.9%19
June 20264,38462.5%26

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 Trust6.7 mi11,44469%+6.8 pp
East Cheshire NHS Trust8.4 mi2,47866%+3.1 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi6,27755%-7.2 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust17 mi5,05174%+11.9 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust19.7 mi2,34988%+25.4 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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