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Ophthalmology waiting times at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,813 people were on the Ophthalmology at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
6,813
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.0%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
201
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

201 people (3.0%, roughly 1 in 33) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 19.8 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 9.4% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire 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 (53% to 54%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2 points over 3 months (56.0% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (53.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +1.5 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 202552.5%
August 202552.4%
September 202554.8%
October 202556.5%
November 202554.1%
December 202553.3%
January 202651.8%
February 202653.1%
March 202656%
April 202654%
May 202655.1%
June 202654%

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 University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,86652.5%196
August 20255,76952.4%198
September 20255,62954.8%192
October 20255,79256.5%213
November 20255,90254.1%269
December 20255,88453.3%240
January 20265,99651.8%265
February 20266,23953.1%251
March 20266,54256.0%248
April 20266,71054.0%244
May 20266,79255.1%225
June 20266,81354.0%201

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
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust6.5 mi91177%+23 pp
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust10.9 mi3,91763%+9.5 pp
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust19.1 mi10,07475%+21 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust21.3 mi9,13165%+11 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust22.1 mi8,00280%+26 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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