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Ophthalmology waiting times at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,756 people were on the Ophthalmology at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (76%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
3,756
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
75.5%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 10.1% of everyone waiting at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 17.4 percentage points (58% to 76%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.6 points over 3 months (79.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (76.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +17.4 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 202558.1%
August 202562.5%
September 202568.6%
October 202571.6%
November 202576.2%
December 202576.4%
January 202670.6%
February 202672.3%
March 202679.1%
April 202678.3%
May 202679.9%
June 202675.5%

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 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,69858.1%56
August 20253,05162.5%43
September 20252,90468.6%30
October 20252,76171.6%21
November 20253,13076.2%11
December 20253,18276.4%1
January 20263,06970.6%0
February 20263,03372.3%0
March 20263,41679.1%0
April 20263,38278.3%0
May 20263,63179.9%0
June 20263,75675.5%0

Other NHS trusts offering ophthalmology within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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