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Ophthalmology waiting times at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,595 people were on the Ophthalmology at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (82%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Ophthalmology across England

People waiting
1,595
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
81.5%
England: 72.2%
Over 52 weeks
5
Median wait
7 wks
Published median for this list

5 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.3 percentage points better than 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 3.4% of everyone waiting at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Ophthalmology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Ophthalmology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 81.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 78.2% 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
81.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
85% then · change to latest -3.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
85.9% then · change to latest -4.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
78.2% then · change to latest +3.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
51.3% then · change to latest +30.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202681.5%1,595
July 202683.3%1,605
June 202685.2%1,576
May 202685%1,576
April 202688.1%1,568
March 202686.9%1,530
February 202685.9%1,466
January 202682.7%1,307
December 202580.9%1,259
November 202578.4%1,253
October 202578.1%1,336
September 202579.3%1,464
August 202578.2%1,521
July 202578.1%1,486
June 202580.7%1,609
May 202580.4%1,736
April 202580.2%1,700
March 202579.1%1,606
February 202573.5%1,665
January 202571.5%1,714
December 202469.1%1,730
November 202469%1,831
October 202468.3%1,975
September 202464.7%2,283
August 202458.9%2,460
July 202458.4%2,742
June 202457.6%2,943
May 202455.6%3,068
April 202451.3%3,312
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
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi5,03670%-11 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust11.3 mi2,68685%+3.1 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust11.4 mi3,87169%-12.5 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi6,19551%-30.6 pp
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust13.9 mi786%+4.2 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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