NHS England’s August 2026 figures for Ophthalmology: 625,063 patients in England were still waiting to start consultant-led treatment at the end of the month across 347 providers that reported it; 72.2% had been waiting 18 weeks or less and 5,022 more than 52 weeks.
625,063 patients still waiting to start consultant-led treatment at the end of the month for this specialty in England
72.2% of them had been waiting 18 weeks or less
5,022 had been waiting more than 52 weeks
England figures are the sum of what providers submitted. Source: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times Data , August 2026 ("Full CSV data file", incomplete pathways). Imported by Docorix on 31 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Information from NHS England. Source pages last checked 31 October 2026.
Every provider that reports Ophthalmology Listed A to Z. You can re-order the table by any column, but Docorix does not rank providers: trusts differ in size, in the patients they treat and in the cases they take, so a larger or smaller number is not by itself better or worse. 23 providers with fewer than 10 pathways in this specialty are not listed. – means fewer than 50 pathways, too few for a percentage to mean much.
The integrated care board is the “Provider Parent” organisation in NHS England’s file; it is not always the board for the area where a provider’s sites are.
Provider Waiting Waiting 18 weeks or less Waiting over 52 weeks Aces Birmingham 31 – 0 Aces Bristol 118 85.6% 0 Aces Chelmsford 104 92.3% 0 Aces Chiswick 13 – 0 Aces Dartford 584 86.3% 0 Aces Exeter 584 86.3% 0 Aces Leeds King Street 54 94.4% 0 Aces Leeds White Rose 14 – 0 Aces Liverpool 54 90.7% 1 Aces Manchester 90 86.7% 0 Aces Manchester St Johns Street 12 – 1 Aces Milton Keynes 216 96.8% 0 Aces Newcastle 32 – 0 Aces Nottingham 36 – 1 Aces Southampton 55 96.4% 0 Aces White City 185 84.3% 0 Airedale NHS Foundation Trust 630 81.1% 0 Anglia Community Eye Service - Bury St Edmunds 11 – 0 Anglia Community Eye Service - Cambridge 200 88.5% 1 Anglia Community Eye Service - Norwich 16 – 0 Anglia Community Eye Service - Peterborough 284 89.1% 1 Anglia Community Eye Service - Thetford Healthy Living Centre 277 95.3% 0 Anglia Community Eye Service Ltd 744 93.3% 0 Anglia Community Eye Services Fakenham 493 91.9% 0 Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 4,697 64.3% 11 Ashtead Hospital 80 88.8% 0 Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust 3,421 82.8% 0 Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 3,487 68.2% 10 Barts Health NHS Trust 6,519 68.0% 4 Bath Clinic 126 80.2% 0 Beacon Park Hospital 297 57.6% 0 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,863 69.5% 3 Benenden Hospital 90 86.7% 0 Bishops Wood Hospital 53 98.1% 0 Blackheath Hospital 77 54.5% 1 Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,391 67.9% 36 Blakelands Hospital 265 83.0% 1 Bolton NHS Foundation Trust 5,036 70.5% 45 Border Health Alliance Limited 651 62.2% 0 Boston West Hospital 684 84.4% 0 Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2,400 78.3% 0 Bristol NHS Foundation Trust 7,138 75.9% 0 Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 5,381 62.2% 0 Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust 2,679 86.4% 0 Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,853 66.6% 10 Ces Medical 232 97.4% 0 Chaucer Hospital 163 95.1% 0 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2,439 63.7% 29 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2,241 68.1% 7 Circle Reading Hospital 113 71.7% 0 Claremont Private Hospital 20 – 0 Clementine Churchill Hospital 34 – 0 Community Health and Eyecare Limited 4,149 86.3% 1 Cora Health Diagnostics (Formerly Healthshare Diagnostics) 21 – 1 Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 3,184 70.4% 17 County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust 3,382 66.7% 31 Deeping Surgical 155 74.2% 0 Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 4,157 67.1% 19 Dorking Healthcare Limited (Dhc) 190 79.5% 0 Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2,605 71.9% 2 Droitwich Spa Hospital 13 – 0 East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust 2,618 79.3% 29 East Cheshire NHS Trust 2,354 64.1% 24 East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust 5,544 60.7% 163 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust 4,340 67.2% 4 East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust 9,222 64.1% 34 East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust 3,716 79.7% 1 Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust 2,599 89.5% 0 Epsomedical Group 462 96.5% 0 Fairfield Independent Hospital 54 64.8% 0 Fitzwilliam Hospital 180 82.8% 0 Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust 4,156 72.1% 1 Fulwood Hall Hospital 324 71.3% 0 George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust 865 76.4% 1 Glendon Wood Hospital 572 88.3% 0 Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,153 86.3% 0 Goring Hall Hospital 103 88.3% 0 Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,044 59.3% 26 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust 3,215 82.1% 1 Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2,978 83.3% 3 Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust 1,502 78.5% 0 Hendon Hospital 146 68.5% 0 Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 9,306 60.7% 274 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust 5,384 75.7% 0 Independent Health Group 226 98.2% 0 Isight 1,266 81.3% 0 Isle of Wight NHS Trust 2,321 61.1% 1 James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,334 63.9% 49 Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2,987 82.9% 0 King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 12,550 61.5% 537 Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust 4,083 78.4% 0 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,649 78.8% 2 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 4,794 83.0% 1 Lincoln Private Hospital 129 80.6% 0 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 8,348 76.5% 0 London Independent Hospital 131 96.9% 0 London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust 1,246 87.4% 0 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 5,934 74.7% 0 Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust 12,421 68.4% 17 Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 3,871 69.0% 8 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust 13,629 59.0% 457 Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2,721 82.2% 1 Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust 5,114 66.4% 16 Midland Eye (Eye-Docs Ltd) 685 96.8% 0 Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 4,128 56.7% 96 Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 42,168 84.6% 19 Mount Stuart Hospital 269 27.9% 4 New Hall Hospital 137 85.4% 0 Newcastle Newmedica Ltd 889 97.9% 0 Newmedica - Berkshire 1,267 68.4% 6 Newmedica - Berkshire - Bracknell 113 51.3% 0 Newmedica - Birmingham 1,074 93.0% 1 Newmedica - Bradford & Huddersfield 984 87.4% 4 Newmedica - Brigg - Riverside Surgery 685 83.8% 1 Newmedica - Bristol - Litfield House 350 86.0% 5 Newmedica - Bromsgrove 545 87.5% 0 Newmedica - Cheshire Oaks 498 86.5% 2 Newmedica - Darlington 64 90.6% 0 Newmedica - Exeter - Glen House 445 95.3% 0 Newmedica - Gloucester (Aspen Medical Centre) 551 71.9% 2 Newmedica - Gloucester (Brighouse Court) 1,021 81.7% 7 Newmedica - Hampshire 1,827 55.7% 15 Newmedica - Harrogate 362 84.0% 0 Newmedica - Hertforshire - Welwyn Garden City 1,407 60.9% 1 Newmedica - Ipswich 912 95.1% 0 Newmedica - Langford 392 77.3% 9 Newmedica - Lincoln 16 – 0 Newmedica - Manchester West 308 85.7% 0 Newmedica - North Derbyshire - Midland Court 1,162 90.3% 1 Newmedica - Northampton 1,231 77.2% 0 Newmedica - Norwich 1,741 86.7% 3 Newmedica - Nottingham 769 96.5% 0 Newmedica - Nottingham - Keyworth 34 – 0 Newmedica - Oxfordshire 1,154 65.6% 0 Newmedica - Shrewsbury 444 97.1% 0 Newmedica - Swindon Murdock Road 168 86.3% 2 Newmedica - Teesside - North Ormesby 1,641 92.3% 0 Newmedica - Wakefield 592 88.9% 0 Newmedica - Worcester 1,029 88.1% 1 Newmedica - Worksop - Dukeries 190 90.0% 0 Newmedica Aztec West 850 74.4% 8 Newmedica Community Ophthalmology - Leeds 740 86.5% 0 Newmedica Community Ophthalmology - North East Lincolnshire - Grimsby 929 78.4% 3 Newmedica Leicester 981 86.4% 3 Newmedica Ophthalmology - Nuneaton - Camp Hill - Gp Led Health Centre 11 – 0 Newmedica Suffolk - Bury St Edmunds - Clarity House 524 93.9% 0 Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,853 68.8% 45 North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust 2,686 84.6% 0 North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust 2,344 80.5% 0 North Downs Hospital 123 90.2% 1 North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust 5,977 59.7% 59 Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust 6,195 50.9% 247 Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust 3,017 81.4% 1 Norwich & Norfolk Surgical Ltd (N2s) 425 96.7% 0 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust 8,554 68.0% 134 Nuffield Health the Holly Hospital 178 87.6% 0 Nuffield Health, Haywards Heath Hospital 12 – 0 Nuffield Health, North Staffordshire Hospital 144 67.4% 2 Nuffield Health, Shrewsbury Hospital 184 76.6% 0 Nuffield Health, Tees Hospital 615 84.1% 0 Nuffield Health, Wolverhampton Hospital 254 86.2% 0 Oaks Hospital 24 – 0 Optegra (Birmingham Eye Hospital) 777 91.6% 0 Optegra (Manchester Eye Hospital) 912 92.9% 0 Optegra (Solent Eye Hospital) 804 95.0% 0 Optegra (Surrey Eye Hospital) 902 95.7% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital Brighton 843 98.0% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital Colchester 273 92.3% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital Leicester 197 83.8% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital Maidstone 475 97.3% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital Newcastle 439 92.5% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital Nottingham 121 95.0% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital Preston 338 97.3% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital Sheffield 408 90.9% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital Uttoxeter 255 95.7% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital West London 722 81.9% 0 Optegra Eye Hospital York 720 86.5% 0 Optegra London Eye Hospital 1,255 80.7% 0 Optegra Yorkshire Eye Hospital 1,056 70.7% 0 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,433 50.8% 198 Phoenix Health Solutions Limited Hq 195 97.4% 0 Pinehill Hospital 147 76.9% 0 Plymouth Newmedica Ltd 760 90.7% 0 Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust 6,978 55.9% 158 Practice Plus Group Hospital - Barlborough 153 92.2% 0 Practice Plus Group Hospital - Emersons Green 311 96.1% 0 Practice Plus Group Hospital - Ilford 159 100.0% 0 Practice Plus Group Hospital - Plymouth 102 99.0% 0 Practice Plus Group Hospital - Shepton Mallet 852 84.3% 12 Practice Plus Group Hospital - Southampton 178 91.6% 0 Practice Plus Group Ophthalmology - North West 1,183 96.3% 0 Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre - Devizes 431 81.7% 0 Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre - Gillingham 599 90.5% 0 Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre - St Marys Portsmouth 484 90.9% 0 Probus Surgical Centre 530 98.1% 0 Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2,448 70.4% 0 Regency Eye Hospital 11 – 0 Ridgeway Hospital 177 75.1% 0 Rivers Hospital 299 86.6% 1 Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust 5,419 77.9% 8 Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust 4,117 80.2% 4 Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust 8,549 61.3% 222 Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust 7,362 66.0% 0 Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust 2,267 61.0% 0 Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust 2,771 86.0% 0 Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust 1,997 80.2% 0 Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust 7,983 78.9% 9 Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 3,299 59.4% 23 Shirley Oaks Hospital 53 84.9% 0 Somerset NHS Foundation Trust 3,271 77.3% 18 Somerset Surgical Services Hq 408 83.8% 0 South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 4,090 78.6% 3 South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust 9,353 75.4% 0 South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust 3,971 57.5% 94 Southend Private Hospital 1,103 81.4% 0 Spamedica Bedford 235 87.7% 0 Spamedica Bexhill 235 91.5% 0 Spamedica Birmingham 829 91.1% 1 Spamedica Blackpool 221 89.6% 0 Spamedica Bolton 710 94.8% 0 Spamedica Bradford 273 91.2% 0 Spamedica Brighton 231 86.1% 1 Spamedica Bristol 323 85.1% 0 Spamedica Bromley 693 84.6% 2 Spamedica Cambridge 492 85.6% 1 Spamedica Carlisle 830 90.6% 0 Spamedica Chelmsford 714 89.9% 2 Spamedica Chester 205 90.7% 1 Spamedica Chesterfield 138 87.7% 0 Spamedica Colchester 194 88.7% 0 Spamedica Coventry 793 89.2% 0 Spamedica Croydon 148 73.6% 1 Spamedica Dalston 484 86.8% 0 Spamedica Derby 258 88.4% 1 Spamedica Doncaster 362 92.0% 0 Spamedica Dorchester 643 90.7% 0 Spamedica Epsom 350 88.3% 0 Spamedica Exeter 358 87.2% 1 Spamedica Eye Hospital (Wakefield) 672 93.3% 0 Spamedica Gateshead 403 92.3% 0 Spamedica Gloucester 86 90.7% 0 Spamedica Guildford 39 – 0 Spamedica Haydock 337 88.4% 1 Spamedica Hereford Diagnostic and Treatment Centre 47 – 0 Spamedica Hull 567 96.1% 0 Spamedica Ipswich Diagnostic & Treatment Centre 40 – 0 Spamedica Isle of Wight Community Diagnostic & Treatment Centre 22 – 0 Spamedica Kendal 386 91.5% 0 Spamedica Leeds 335 93.4% 0 Spamedica Leicester 301 88.0% 0 Spamedica Liverpool 469 88.7% 1 Spamedica Luton 235 83.8% 0 Spamedica Macclesfield Community Diagnostic & Treatment Centre 76 84.2% 0 Spamedica Manchester 299 81.9% 2 Spamedica Newark 470 90.9% 6 Spamedica Newcastle-Under-Lyme 320 96.6% 0 Spamedica North Tyneside 434 91.5% 0 Spamedica Norwich 289 83.7% 2 Spamedica Oldham 710 88.0% 0 Spamedica Oxford 262 88.9% 0 Spamedica Peterborough 479 87.1% 1 Spamedica Poole 1,026 88.1% 1 Spamedica Portsmouth 174 78.7% 2 Spamedica Preston 255 93.3% 0 Spamedica Romford 776 85.4% 1 Spamedica Sale 232 81.5% 0 Spamedica Sheffield 395 89.6% 0 Spamedica Sheffield Community Diagnostic & Treatment Centre 82 98.8% 0 Spamedica Sittingbourne 232 84.9% 0 Spamedica Skelmersdale 130 90.8% 0 Spamedica Solihull 416 86.5% 1 Spamedica Southampton 315 63.8% 12 Spamedica Stockton-on-Tees 438 92.0% 1 Spamedica Swindon 100 80.0% 0 Spamedica Taunton 740 86.5% 2 Spamedica Telford 440 91.8% 0 Spamedica Truro 408 89.5% 0 Spamedica Watford 457 84.7% 0 Spamedica Wembley 460 83.7% 3 Spamedica Widnes 375 93.6% 0 Spamedica Wirral 458 95.6% 0 Spamedica Wokingham 198 85.9% 1 Spamedica Wolverhampton 765 89.9% 3 Spamedica Worcester 440 84.5% 2 St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 70 55.7% 3 St Hugh's Hospital 171 90.6% 0 Stockport NHS Foundation Trust 4,662 58.7% 38 Stourside Hospital 351 93.4% 0 Sulis Hospital Bath (Foxcote Avenue) 372 91.7% 0 Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust 3,198 79.4% 1 Tetbury Hospital Trust Ltd 128 95.3% 0 The Berkshire Independent Hospital 134 100.0% 0 The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust 4,404 62.4% 1 The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 2,829 74.9% 0 The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 10,452 79.2% 98 The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust 3,029 70.1% 32 The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust 2,014 63.4% 39 The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust 2,302 75.7% 0 The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust 9,374 64.3% 109 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust 3,919 73.3% 0 The Stoneygate Eye Hospital 1,002 73.9% 0 The Westbourne Centre 10 – 0 The Yorkshire Clinic 725 94.3% 0 United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 5,893 70.9% 0 University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust 6,979 67.0% 98 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust 9,466 65.4% 53 University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust 6,583 50.1% 250 University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust 4,827 72.1% 0 University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust 10,206 64.6% 79 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust 8,825 76.1% 10 University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust 2,671 78.5% 25 University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust 6,370 55.5% 258 University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust 13,036 51.6% 432 Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust 872 82.1% 0 West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 3,227 61.5% 33 West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust 2,113 71.8% 3 Whittington Health NHS Trust 1,091 81.0% 2 Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 3,242 58.2% 15 Woodlands Hospital 763 85.6% 0 Woodthorpe Hospital 355 93.2% 0 Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust 6,374 66.1% 4 Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 1,595 81.5% 5 Wye Valley NHS Trust 2,948 70.5% 41 York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust 5,580 71.1% 24
How to read these figures NHS England counts incomplete pathways : in its words, “waiting times for cases where patients are still waiting to start treatment at the end of the month”. Each pathway runs from a referral for consultant-led care to the start of treatment, so one patient can appear more than once if they are waiting for more than one thing. NHS.uk gives “18 weeks” as the maximum waiting time for non-urgent, consultant-led treatment (NHS.uk guide to waiting times ).
These are figures about the waiting list, not a forecast of how long a new patient will wait, and they do not cover urgent or cancer care, which NHS England reports separately. A trust’s waiting times can differ widely between specialties, so the specialty tables are usually more useful than the totals. Trusts are listed A to Z; Docorix does not rank them, because trusts differ in size, in the specialties they offer and in the patients they treat. Ask your GP or use the NHS e-Referral Service to see which hospitals can see you and how long each is currently taking.
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