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Ophthalmology waiting times at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,730 people were on the Ophthalmology at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
4,730
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.6%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
4
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

4 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.2 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 10% of everyone waiting at The Dudley Group 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 5.6 percentage points (60% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (65.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (64.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.6 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 202560%
August 202560.2%
September 202562%
October 202561.2%
November 202564.3%
December 202564.1%
January 202661.7%
February 202661.4%
March 202665.1%
April 202663.8%
May 202666%
June 202665.6%

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 The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,90360.0%4
August 20253,94860.2%11
September 20254,08862.0%10
October 20254,05861.2%13
November 20254,35664.3%3
December 20254,44664.1%2
January 20264,42061.7%2
February 20264,43561.4%0
March 20264,25865.1%5
April 20264,27663.8%1
May 20264,48966.0%2
June 20264,73065.6%4

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
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust6.8 mi9,47161%-4.3 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust7.1 mi8,00280%+14.4 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust7.5 mi93089%+23.7 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust8.1 mi9,13165%-0.6 pp
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust21.6 mi6,09970%+4.7 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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