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

week England average

weeks between the fastest and slowest provider

189k

people waiting across 122 providers

That spread is the whole point. Someone waiting at the slowest provider could, on these figures, be seen about 16 weeks sooner elsewhere, if they know to ask. The median also hides the tail: 585 of the 188,635 people on this list nationally have been waiting more than a year.

#	Provider	Median	Within 18wk	Waiting
1	East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Blackburn	4 wks	97%	690
2	North Bristol NHS Trust Bristol	4 wks	98%	610
3	Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Thornton Heath	4 wks	99%	1,014
4	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust London	5 wks	98%	377
5	Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Barnsley	5 wks	95%	326
6	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds	5 wks	94%	764
7	Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust Romford	5 wks	95%	2,435
8	Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Salford	5 wks	89%	1,033
9	Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool	5 wks	93%	593
10	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne	6 wks	94%	827
11	Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Gateshead	6 wks	88%	354
12	University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Kendal	6 wks	95%	490
13	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge	6 wks	97%	647
14	Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge	6 wks	96%	2,938
15	Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chester	6 wks	85%	1,059
16	Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Crewe	6 wks	85%	239
17	Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Camberley	6 wks	92%	1,701
18	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Manchester	7 wks	93%	3,020
19	East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Stevenage	7 wks	94%	946
20	Stockport NHS Foundation Trust Stockport	7 wks	94%	526
21	Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Portsmouth	7 wks	96%	587
22	The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Wolverhampton	7 wks	89%	1,784
23	Whittington Health NHS Trust London	7 wks	90%	700
24	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	7 wks	89%	839
25	Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Reading	7 wks	91%	1,444
26	Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Taunton	7 wks	86%	1,532
27	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Middlesbrough	7 wks	89%	1,012
28	North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Peterborough	7 wks	78%	1,274
29	Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Ashton-Under-Lyne	7 wks	89%	650
30	Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust Bath	7 wks	90%	546
31	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Oxford	8 wks	87%	1,443
32	Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Smethwick	8 wks	87%	1,864
33	The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust Dudley	8 wks	88%	1,020
34	University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Southampton	8 wks	85%	886
35	The Yorkshire Clinic Bingley	8 wks	96%	788
36	Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Kettering	8 wks	78%	779
37	Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust Harrogate	8 wks	92%	328
38	Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Truro	8 wks	80%	619
39	East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Colchester	8 wks	80%	1,528
40	The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust Rotherham	8 wks	93%	885
41	The Hamptons Hospital Ltd Peterborough	8 wks	76%	152
42	United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Lincoln	8 wks	72%	1,617
43	Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust London	8 wks	84%	2,365
44	Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Huddersfield	8 wks	79%	985
45	Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Milton Keynes	8 wks	92%	1,208
46	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sutton-in-Ashfield	8 wks	91%	1,570
47	Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust Walsall	8 wks	96%	672
48	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London	8 wks	80%	2,307
49	Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Northampton	8 wks	91%	1,580
50	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool	9 wks	84%	1,217
51	Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chesterfield	9 wks	75%	509
52	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust North Shields	9 wks	95%	2,820
53	Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Dorchester	9 wks	80%	306
54	George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Nuneaton	9 wks	75%	600
55	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottingham	9 wks	78%	2,144
56	University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust Worthing	9 wks	76%	1,806
57	South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust Sunderland	9 wks	77%	2,734
58	West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Watford	9 wks	85%	1,684
59	Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Guildford	9 wks	85%	383
60	Dorking Healthcare Limited (Dhc) Redhill	9 wks	84%	146
61	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cheltenham	9 wks	90%	1,202
62	Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Maidstone	9 wks	81%	1,278
63	University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Derby	9 wks	79%	1,628
64	Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Prescot	9 wks	84%	1,299
65	Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	9 wks	86%	1,508
66	University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester	9 wks	82%	2,358
67	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Grimsby	9 wks	72%	1,250
68	Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton	9 wks	78%	896
69	Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford	9 wks	78%	1,416
70	Isle of Wight NHS Trust Newport	9 wks	80%	284
71	Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Redhill	10 wks	74%	1,114
72	Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Amersham	10 wks	80%	879
73	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Exeter	10 wks	72%	2,029
74	University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust Bristol	10 wks	74%	1,363
75	Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust Carshalton	10 wks	69%	1,317
76	Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust East Grinstead	10 wks	98%	188
77	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Basingstoke	10 wks	75%	1,731
78	The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Harlow	10 wks	77%	862
79	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	11 wks	75%	3,219
80	Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Wakefield	11 wks	75%	1,373
81	Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Worcester	11 wks	78%	1,302
82	Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust Kingston upon Thames	11 wks	74%	759
83	Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust Dartford	11 wks	71%	1,133
84	Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Salisbury	11 wks	69%	972
85	Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Norwich	11 wks	68%	1,482
86	North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust Warrington	11 wks	72%	1,092
87	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust London	11 wks	75%	5,660
88	University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Stoke-on-Trent	11 wks	72%	5,131
89	West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Bury St. Edmunds	11 wks	74%	638
90	James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Great Yarmouth	11 wks	73%	1,071
91	Barts Health NHS Trust London	11 wks	71%	4,929
92	East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust St. Leonards-on-Sea	11 wks	72%	2,377
93	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Hull	11 wks	69%	2,858
94	North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Hartlepool	11 wks	68%	728
95	University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Coventry	11 wks	72%	2,602
96	Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chertsey	11 wks	69%	1,287
97	Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Keighley	12 wks	62%	646
98	University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Plymouth	12 wks	67%	1,867
99	The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Uxbridge	12 wks	73%	929
100	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham	12 wks	66%	2,929
101	Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Bradford	12 wks	68%	852
102	Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Wigan	12 wks	68%	1,952
103	Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Luton	13 wks	68%	3,493
104	St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	13 wks	63%	3,253
105	University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Poole	13 wks	66%	1,555
106	County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Darlington	13 wks	64%	1,534
107	North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Carlisle	13 wks	63%	682
108	Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust London	14 wks	62%	10,075
109	The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust Shrewsbury	14 wks	68%	1,709
110	London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Harrow	14 wks	62%	3,454
111	Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Westcliff-on-Sea	14 wks	62%	4,204
112	Medway NHS Foundation Trust Gillingham	14 wks	60%	910
113	Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Swindon	14 wks	59%	860
114	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Blackpool	14 wks	59%	1,119
115	Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust Shrewsbury	15 wks	62%	50
116	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Wirral	15 wks	57%	3,899
117	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust King's Lynn	15 wks	56%	908
118	Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Doncaster	16 wks	55%	2,411
119	East Cheshire NHS Trust Macclesfield	17 wks	51%	1,137
120	East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Canterbury	18 wks	51%	4,913
121	York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust York	19 wks	49%	3,055
122	South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Warwick	20 wks	47%	1,122

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