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Ophthalmology waiting times at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 10,452 people were on the Ophthalmology at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
10,452
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
79.2%
England: 72.2%
Over 52 weeks
98
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

98 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7 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 11.9% of everyone waiting at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Ophthalmology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Ophthalmology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 79.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 80.2% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
79.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
81.5% then · change to latest -2.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
79.3% then · change to latest -0.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
80.2% then · change to latest -1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
69% then · change to latest +10.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202679.2%10,452
July 202680.1%10,308
June 202681.3%9,778
May 202681.5%9,546
April 202679.7%8,960
March 202680.7%8,316
February 202679.3%8,617
January 202679.9%8,522
December 202582.1%9,075
November 202582.2%9,060
October 202582.1%9,172
September 202581.3%8,757
August 202580.2%8,580
July 202579.4%8,721
June 202578.2%8,992
May 202577%9,009
April 202577.3%9,521
March 202577%9,539
February 202577%9,093
January 202576.6%9,195
December 202475.4%9,343
November 202474.6%9,587
October 202473.6%9,840
September 202471.5%10,176
August 202471.8%10,434
July 202472.5%10,609
June 202472.3%10,400
May 202471.8%10,230
April 202469%10,002
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi9,35375%-3.7 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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