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Ophthalmology waiting times at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,740 people were on the Ophthalmology at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
5,740
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
69.3%
England: 73.8%
Over 52 weeks
37
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

37 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

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 12.1% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Plymouth 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 7.2 percentage points (62% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (70.0% in March 2026); up 7.6 points over 6 months (61.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.2 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 202562.1%
August 202560.9%
September 202561.3%
October 202562.9%
November 202563.1%
December 202561.7%
January 202666.3%
February 202668.2%
March 202670%
April 202671.8%
May 202670.7%
June 202669.3%

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 University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,02762.1%267
August 20255,62960.9%210
September 20255,10461.3%162
October 20254,91362.9%134
November 20254,73363.1%121
December 20254,46161.7%73
January 20264,70166.3%57
February 20264,91468.2%37
March 20265,11870.0%27
April 20265,47371.8%29
May 20265,73970.7%35
June 20265,74069.3%37

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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