Other: Paediatric Services waiting times by hospital in England (June 2026)

week England average

weeks between the fastest and slowest provider

326k

people waiting across 115 providers

That spread is the whole point. Someone waiting at the slowest provider could, on these figures, be seen about 18 weeks sooner elsewhere, if they know to ask. The median also hides the tail: 4,185 of the 325,830 people on this list nationally have been waiting more than a year.

#	Provider	Median	Within 18wk	Waiting
1	East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Canterbury	3 wks	99%	732
2	Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Dartford	4 wks	99%	769
3	Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Stockport	5 wks	93%	170
4	The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Harlow	5 wks	95%	594
5	Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Portsmouth	6 wks	96%	857
6	North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Carlisle	6 wks	93%	606
7	Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Harrogate	6 wks	92%	846
8	Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Prescot	6 wks	89%	2,965
9	Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Walsall	6 wks	83%	3,289
10	University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Stoke-on-Trent	6 wks	81%	1,931
11	George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Nuneaton	7 wks	87%	534
12	Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust Stanmore	7 wks	90%	622
13	Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Bracknell	7 wks	100%	102
14	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Basingstoke	8 wks	83%	1,701
15	Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Guildford	8 wks	89%	549
16	Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Kettering	8 wks	83%	305
17	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust North Shields	8 wks	97%	1,287
18	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London	8 wks	84%	4,253
19	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust London	8 wks	87%	2,346
20	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust King's Lynn	8 wks	70%	625
21	Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Ashton-Under-Lyne	8 wks	82%	1,037
22	London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Harrow	8 wks	83%	2,623
23	Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Worcester	8 wks	97%	99
24	Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Doncaster	8 wks	83%	233
25	Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust London	8 wks	82%	8,722
26	Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Taunton	8 wks	77%	1,126
27	Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust London	8 wks	88%	2,093
28	Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Truro	8 wks	85%	699
29	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne	9 wks	76%	8,138
30	Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Redhill	9 wks	81%	1,866
31	University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Kendal	9 wks	73%	2,214
32	The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Rotherham	9 wks	85%	1,217
33	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	9 wks	77%	4,146
34	The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Uxbridge	9 wks	77%	1,103
35	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottingham	9 wks	82%	2,829
36	East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Blackburn	9 wks	84%	1,519
37	Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Northampton	9 wks	78%	471
38	Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Huddersfield	9 wks	85%	1,585
39	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sutton-in-Ashfield	9 wks	86%	930
40	Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust Kingston upon Thames	9 wks	69%	1,636
41	Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford	9 wks	73%	260
42	Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Barnsley	9 wks	81%	874
43	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Wirral	9 wks	79%	2,475
44	North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust Warrington	9 wks	73%	2,016
45	Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chesterfield	9 wks	73%	2,096
46	Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust Sheffield	9 wks	75%	11,322
47	Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Amersham	10 wks	87%	784
48	South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Warwick	10 wks	74%	463
49	Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Reading	10 wks	85%	1,470
50	Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Keighley	10 wks	71%	629
51	Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Smethwick	10 wks	70%	6,234
52	South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust Sunderland	10 wks	77%	3,223
53	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Hull	10 wks	73%	1,602
54	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham	10 wks	72%	2,317
55	St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	11 wks	72%	3,381
56	University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Southampton	11 wks	70%	6,222
57	Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Romford	11 wks	83%	426
58	West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Watford	11 wks	74%	2,660
59	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cheltenham	11 wks	75%	1,274
60	Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chertsey	11 wks	70%	2,165
61	The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Oswestry	11 wks	74%	329
62	University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Poole	11 wks	76%	2,576
63	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Middlesbrough	11 wks	69%	1,885
64	Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Bradford	11 wks	71%	1,914
65	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge	11 wks	69%	4,735
66	Medway NHS Foundation Trust Gillingham	11 wks	76%	146
67	Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool	11 wks	69%	16,372
68	Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham	11 wks	67%	8,932
69	Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Carshalton	12 wks	67%	5,883
70	East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust St. Leonards-on-Sea	12 wks	74%	316
71	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Exeter	12 wks	66%	1,358
72	The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust Dudley	12 wks	66%	2,048
73	Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust London	12 wks	68%	5,868
74	East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Colchester	12 wks	67%	751
75	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	12 wks	65%	4,971
76	Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Norwich	12 wks	67%	5,053
77	University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester	12 wks	66%	8,143
78	North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Peterborough	12 wks	69%	734
79	The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Shrewsbury	12 wks	76%	1,009
80	Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton	13 wks	67%	198
81	East Cheshire NHS Trust Macclesfield	13 wks	69%	332
82	University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Worthing	13 wks	64%	5,741
83	Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	13 wks	69%	9,393
84	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Wigan	13 wks	62%	2,854
85	West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Bury St. Edmunds	13 wks	63%	1,654
86	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Oxford	13 wks	63%	6,620
87	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Blackpool	14 wks	65%	1,356
88	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust London	14 wks	62%	6,159
89	County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Darlington	14 wks	63%	5,288
90	Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Maidstone	14 wks	62%	4,539
91	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds	14 wks	63%	10,132
92	University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Bristol	14 wks	59%	9,542
93	University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Plymouth	14 wks	59%	1,527
94	University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Derby	14 wks	59%	3,375
95	Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Luton	14 wks	60%	5,318
96	United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Lincoln	14 wks	60%	1,717
97	James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Great Yarmouth	15 wks	57%	2,393
98	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Manchester	15 wks	58%	18,231
99	Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Salford	15 wks	59%	4,728
100	North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Hartlepool	16 wks	57%	1,619
101	Barts Health NHS Trust London	16 wks	56%	9,793
102	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool	16 wks	55%	898
103	Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Wakefield	16 wks	56%	661
104	The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Wolverhampton	17 wks	53%	1,561
105	University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Coventry	17 wks	53%	1,580
106	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Preston	17 wks	53%	1,802
107	Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust Bath	17 wks	52%	1,436
108	Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Swindon	18 wks	52%	1,631
109	Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Dorchester	18 wks	52%	318
110	Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Salisbury	18 wks	49%	168
111	Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Camberley	19 wks	43%	1,150
112	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Grimsby	20 wks	46%	748
113	Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Westcliff-on-Sea	21 wks	44%	5,107
114	Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Thornton Heath	21 wks	41%	1,050
115	Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Milton Keynes	21 wks	46%	926

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