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Ophthalmology waiting times at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 9,374 people were on the Ophthalmology at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (64%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
9,374
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
64.3%
England: 72.2%
Over 52 weeks
109
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

109 people (1.2%, roughly 1 in 83) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.9 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 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): 64.3% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 65% 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
64.3%
3 months earlier · May 2026
61.5% then · change to latest +2.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
56.3% then · change to latest +8 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
65% then · change to latest -0.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
70.5% then · change to latest -6.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202664.3%9,374
July 202664.7%9,259
June 202661.3%9,471
May 202661.5%9,624
April 202662.1%9,503
March 202661.9%9,136
February 202656.3%9,594
January 202656.3%9,551
December 202561.8%9,645
November 202564.4%9,347
October 202566.3%9,511
September 202566.9%9,246
August 202565%9,537
July 202562.6%9,919
June 202562.3%10,281
May 202560.4%10,374
April 202559.3%10,812
March 202559.2%10,803
February 202560.3%10,628
January 202560.7%10,359
December 202463.9%10,379
November 202465%9,897
October 202466.3%9,573
September 202467.8%9,385
August 202469.1%8,892
July 202469.8%8,715
June 202468.9%8,451
May 202470.8%8,322
April 202470.5%7,897
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
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust4.2 mi87282%+17.8 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust6.8 mi4,40462%-2 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust9.7 mi7,98379%+14.6 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust12.1 mi9,46665%+1 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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