Elderly Medicine waiting times by hospital in England (June 2026)

week England average

weeks between the fastest and slowest provider

26k

people waiting across 100 providers

That spread is the whole point. Someone waiting at the slowest provider could, on these figures, be seen about 12 weeks sooner elsewhere, if they know to ask. The median also hides the tail: 96 of the 26,156 people on this list nationally have been waiting more than a year.

#	Provider	Median	Within 18wk	Waiting
1	St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	2 wks	100%	51
2	East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Blackburn	2 wks	100%	73
3	London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Harrow	3 wks	98%	86
4	Medway NHS Foundation Trust Gillingham	3 wks	97%	63
5	North Bristol NHS Trust Bristol	3 wks	100%	107
6	The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Rotherham	4 wks	97%	110
7	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds	4 wks	100%	51
8	Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Northampton	4 wks	100%	70
9	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge	4 wks	94%	78
10	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sutton-in-Ashfield	4 wks	100%	95
11	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust King's Lynn	4 wks	94%	66
12	Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Doncaster	4 wks	89%	125
13	The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Wolverhampton	4 wks	96%	94
14	Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Portsmouth	4 wks	86%	58
15	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Basingstoke	4 wks	93%	166
16	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust North Shields	4 wks	100%	639
17	Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Salford	5 wks	94%	214
18	York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust York	5 wks	97%	264
19	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Blackpool	5 wks	92%	63
20	Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Walsall	5 wks	97%	164
21	Whittington Health NHS Trust London	5 wks	100%	76
22	University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Derby	5 wks	91%	298
23	Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Maidstone	5 wks	99%	180
24	Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Bradford	5 wks	94%	67
25	University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Kendal	5 wks	96%	175
26	Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Barnsley	5 wks	97%	111
27	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Middlesbrough	5 wks	100%	50
28	Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Amersham	5 wks	100%	213
29	Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Stockport	5 wks	98%	101
30	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust London	5 wks	94%	171
31	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne	5 wks	98%	218
32	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cheltenham	5 wks	93%	358
33	East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust St. Leonards-on-Sea	5 wks	97%	176
34	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Grimsby	5 wks	87%	301
35	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust London	5 wks	95%	119
36	East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Colchester	5 wks	96%	135
37	Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Thornton Heath	6 wks	97%	185
38	University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Coventry	6 wks	94%	82
39	Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust Bath	6 wks	96%	165
40	Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust London	6 wks	92%	532
41	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	6 wks	96%	519
42	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Hull	6 wks	80%	98
43	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Wirral	6 wks	96%	167
44	Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Truro	6 wks	92%	285
45	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	6 wks	97%	64
46	Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Harrogate	6 wks	92%	82
47	Barts Health NHS Trust London	6 wks	92%	167
48	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Oxford	6 wks	90%	676
49	Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Romford	6 wks	93%	841
50	University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Bristol	6 wks	91%	201
51	Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Gateshead	7 wks	95%	211
52	University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Southampton	7 wks	95%	274
53	South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust Sunderland	7 wks	81%	943
54	County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Darlington	7 wks	94%	405
55	The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust Dudley	7 wks	91%	194
56	Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust London	7 wks	99%	330
57	The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Uxbridge	7 wks	93%	80
58	Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Dartford	7 wks	86%	325
59	The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Shrewsbury	7 wks	100%	250
60	East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Canterbury	7 wks	87%	331
61	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Exeter	7 wks	86%	328
62	University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Stoke-on-Trent	7 wks	96%	56
63	University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester	7 wks	84%	573
64	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Preston	7 wks	91%	158
65	Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Westcliff-on-Sea	7 wks	77%	657
66	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham	8 wks	90%	290
67	Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	8 wks	92%	287
68	North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Hartlepool	8 wks	91%	194
69	Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford	8 wks	75%	145
70	Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton	8 wks	85%	431
71	Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chester	8 wks	89%	199
72	North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Peterborough	8 wks	76%	337
73	East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Stevenage	8 wks	81%	154
74	University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Poole	8 wks	81%	763
75	West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Watford	8 wks	95%	58
76	South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Warwick	8 wks	97%	187
77	Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Prescot	9 wks	85%	391
78	Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Huddersfield	9 wks	80%	197
79	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London	9 wks	69%	306
80	Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Swindon	9 wks	81%	170
81	George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Nuneaton	9 wks	85%	87
82	Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Luton	10 wks	77%	326
83	Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Kettering	10 wks	72%	264
84	Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Camberley	10 wks	85%	61
85	East Cheshire NHS Trust Macclesfield	10 wks	70%	80
86	Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chertsey	10 wks	79%	253
87	Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Redhill	10 wks	81%	259
88	Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Taunton	10 wks	77%	679
89	Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Dorchester	10 wks	70%	70
90	North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Carlisle	11 wks	71%	287
91	United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Lincoln	12 wks	69%	384
92	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Manchester	12 wks	61%	655
93	University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Worthing	12 wks	66%	159
94	Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Salisbury	12 wks	68%	277
95	Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Carshalton	13 wks	64%	222
96	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Wigan	14 wks	67%	329
97	Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Wakefield	14 wks	59%	436
98	North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust Warrington	15 wks	62%	385
99	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool	16 wks	55%	1,105
100	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottingham	17 wks	54%	1,164

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Providers with fewer than 50 people waiting are not shown, because a median over a handful of patients says more about chance than about the queue. Some providers listed run community or single-procedure services rather than full surgical ones; check what a provider actually treats before asking to be referred.