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Ophthalmology waiting times at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 9,471 people were on the Ophthalmology at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
9,471
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.3%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
139
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

139 people (1.5%, roughly 1 in 67) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12.5 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 13.2% of everyone waiting at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (63% to 61%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (61.9% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (61.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -1.3 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 202562.6%
August 202565%
September 202566.9%
October 202566.3%
November 202564.4%
December 202561.8%
January 202656.3%
February 202656.3%
March 202661.9%
April 202662.1%
May 202661.5%
June 202661.3%

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 Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20259,91962.6%68
August 20259,53765.0%73
September 20259,24666.9%66
October 20259,51166.3%90
November 20259,34764.4%114
December 20259,64561.8%160
January 20269,55156.3%205
February 20269,59456.3%233
March 20269,13661.9%188
April 20269,50362.1%218
May 20269,62461.5%194
June 20269,47161.3%139

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
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust4.2 mi93089%+28 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust6.8 mi4,73066%+4.3 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust9.7 mi8,00280%+18.7 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust12.1 mi9,13165%+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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