General Internal Medicine waiting times by hospital in England (June 2026)

week England average

weeks between the fastest and slowest provider

33k

people waiting across 60 providers

That spread is the whole point. Someone waiting at the slowest provider could, on these figures, be seen about 22 weeks sooner elsewhere, if they know to ask. The median also hides the tail: 262 of the 32,760 people on this list nationally have been waiting more than a year.

#	Provider	Median	Within 18wk	Waiting
1	University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester	1 wks	100%	184
2	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust King's Lynn	2 wks	95%	173
3	University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Plymouth	2 wks	94%	54
4	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool	3 wks	94%	78
5	Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Bradford	3 wks	83%	58
6	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Wirral	3 wks	82%	60
7	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Middlesbrough	4 wks	93%	99
8	St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	4 wks	86%	122
9	Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Wakefield	4 wks	71%	82
10	North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Hartlepool	4 wks	97%	262
11	University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Coventry	4 wks	95%	557
12	Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chester	4 wks	94%	65
13	University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Kendal	5 wks	84%	109
14	South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Warwick	5 wks	100%	289
15	Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Prescot	6 wks	88%	417
16	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust North Shields	6 wks	100%	1,556
17	Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Southampton	6 wks	90%	197
18	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham	6 wks	91%	322
19	Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chertsey	6 wks	100%	126
20	Dorking Healthcare Limited (Dhc) Redhill	6 wks	92%	87
21	University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Southampton	7 wks	84%	148
22	North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust Warrington	7 wks	100%	63
23	University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Poole	7 wks	100%	205
24	North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Peterborough	7 wks	100%	128
25	George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Nuneaton	7 wks	76%	266
26	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	7 wks	91%	669
27	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Manchester	8 wks	88%	212
28	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Grimsby	8 wks	88%	84
29	Medway NHS Foundation Trust Gillingham	8 wks	97%	97
30	The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Oswestry	8 wks	92%	2,792
31	Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Huddersfield	8 wks	97%	107
32	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cheltenham	8 wks	85%	216
33	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust London	8 wks	67%	305
34	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne	8 wks	84%	921
35	Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust London	9 wks	89%	349
36	The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Shrewsbury	9 wks	83%	1,325
37	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Hull	9 wks	77%	571
38	Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Luton	10 wks	88%	763
39	West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Bury St. Edmunds	10 wks	75%	640
40	Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Dartford	10 wks	69%	782
41	The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham	11 wks	78%	226
42	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London	11 wks	70%	114
43	Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chesterfield	11 wks	70%	461
44	North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Carlisle	11 wks	66%	116
45	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust London	11 wks	71%	79
46	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Exeter	11 wks	63%	115
47	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Wigan	12 wks	75%	172
48	County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Darlington	12 wks	67%	1,927
49	Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Westcliff-on-Sea	12 wks	67%	2,289
50	Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Taunton	13 wks	79%	62
51	Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Carshalton	14 wks	57%	132
52	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Preston	15 wks	59%	2,002
53	Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust London	15 wks	59%	336
54	United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Lincoln	15 wks	70%	675
55	Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Northampton	16 wks	60%	442
56	Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust Kingston upon Thames	16 wks	57%	467
57	East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Colchester	16 wks	54%	811
58	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	17 wks	52%	5,944
59	Barts Health NHS Trust London	18 wks	54%	57
60	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge	24 wks	39%	793

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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.