Hospital waiting times by area

England's NHS is organised into 36 Integrated Care Board areas. Each page shows waiting times across the area's hospitals for every specialty, and ranks the hospitals against each other. Figures for patients waiting at the end of August 2026.

England median: 12.2 weeks across all specialties.

East of England

Areas in East of England
Area	Providers	Waiting	Median wait	Within 18 weeks
Central East	34	396,110	12.8 wks	63%
Essex	16	317,798	15.2 wks	56%
Norfolk and Suffolk	17	160,586	12.6 wks	64%

London

Areas in London
Area	Providers	Waiting	Median wait	Within 18 weeks
North East London	9	227,719	11.8 wks	67%
South East London	10	273,839	11.7 wks	67%
South West London	9	210,577	12.1 wks	67%
West and North London	27	585,970	11.5 wks	68%

Midlands

Areas in Midlands
Area	Providers	Waiting	Median wait	Within 18 weeks
Birmingham and Solihull	15	159,286	11.3 wks	69%
Black Country	9	221,620	12.8 wks	64%
Coventry and Warwickshire	7	120,857	13.0 wks	63%
Derby and Derbyshire	7	132,253	13.1 wks	62%
Herefordshire and Worcestershire	10	92,095	13.1 wks	62%
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland	7	118,952	13.7 wks	61%
Lincolnshire	7	73,581	13.0 wks	63%
Northamptonshire	5	42,863	12.0 wks	68%
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire	11	128,674	12.7 wks	64%
Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin	7	72,526	12.8 wks	65%
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent	8	92,749	12.0 wks	64%

North East and Yorkshire

Areas in North East and Yorkshire
Area	Providers	Waiting	Median wait	Within 18 weeks
Humber and North Yorkshire	15	221,807	14.1 wks	59%
North East and North Cumbria	28	419,267	10.4 wks	72%
South Yorkshire	13	129,767	11.5 wks	67%
West Yorkshire	27	255,748	10.5 wks	70%

North West

Areas in North West
Area	Providers	Waiting	Median wait	Within 18 weeks
Cheshire and Merseyside	31	371,004	11.9 wks	66%
Greater Manchester	29	477,241	13.1 wks	62%
Lancashire and South Cumbria	19	216,100	11.7 wks	66%

South East

Areas in South East
Area	Providers	Waiting	Median wait	Within 18 weeks
Hampshire and Isle of Wight	23	206,881	12.6 wks	64%
Kent and Medway	19	221,569	13.3 wks	62%
Surrey and Sussex	31	456,503	12.9 wks	62%
Thames Valley	20	183,489	12.2 wks	67%

South West

Areas in South West
Area	Providers	Waiting	Median wait	Within 18 weeks
Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire	13	130,454	12.3 wks	66%
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire	12	114,982	10.8 wks	70%
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly	5	48,958	9.5 wks	74%
Devon	13	82,591	12.4 wks	64%
Dorset	7	93,108	12.6 wks	65%
Gloucestershire	7	69,965	10.8 wks	70%
Somerset	5	61,724	11.4 wks	66%

Each provider is counted in the area it belongs to in NHS England's figures. Patients often travel across area boundaries, so use the postcode search to see every hospital near you.