Care of older people at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre and Midland Metropolitan elderly medicine waiting times: most people treated waited 5 to 10 weeks.

Of the people still waiting, half have waited under 4 weeks and 9 in 10 under 10 weeks. 100% are within 18 weeks.

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Based on the waiting-now figures for August 2026. Not a prediction of your own wait: urgency decides who is seen first.

How the wait has changed

Elderly medicine at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, 24 months to August 2026
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Shaded band: half to 9 in 10 of people treated that month. Line: the median wait of people still waiting. Weeks on the left.

The numbers behind the chart
MonthTreated, half withinTreated, 9 in 10 withinWaiting now, half within
September 20244.816.14.7
October 20246.012.75.1
November 20245.812.93.7
December 20244.410.04.5
January 20255.110.83.4
February 20255.812.93.6
March 20255.213.13.9
April 20254.713.25.4
May 20255.912.34.5
June 20254.521.23.7
July 20252.98.83.8
August 20252.812.83.7
September 20252.77.63.9
October 20253.417.43.6
November 20253.316.74.5
December 20253.513.54.5
January 20263.816.92.4
February 20262.616.33.2
March 20262.86.92.8
April 20262.911.13.5
May 20260.97.96.5
June 20261.412.03.3
July 20263.15.83.1
August 20264.810.54.4

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