Compare The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Spire Little Aston Hospital

Put up to three hospitals or providers side by side, for one specialty or for all of them. Figures for patients waiting at the end of August 2026.

Median wait by specialty

Median waits by specialty compared
Specialty The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustSpire Little Aston Hospital England
General surgery 8.7 (shortest) 12.7 12.8
Urology 14.3 – 12.2
Orthopaedics 10.8 9.6 (shortest) 13.9
Ear, nose and throat 17.1 – 15.4
Ophthalmology (eyes) 12.5 – 10.4
Oral surgery 23.3 – 16.4
Plastic surgery 7.4 – 14.0
General medicine 3.4* – 10.2
Gastroenterology 13.0 – 11.0
Cardiology (heart) 14.6 – 11.9
Dermatology (skin) 4.7 – 10.5
Respiratory medicine 8.5 – 10.4
Neurology 10.3 – 13.2
Rheumatology 7.4 – 10.9
Elderly medicine 7.5 – 7.6
Gynaecology 15.2 7.0 (shortest) 14.2
Other medical specialties 10.6 – 10.7
Other paediatric specialties 19.1 – 12.3
Other surgical specialties 12.5 4.5* 11.4
Other services 13.0 – 8.7
All specialties 12.8 10.4 (shortest) 12.2

Median wait in weeks. The shortest in each row is marked in bold; * means fewer than 50 patients waiting, so not compared. Choose a specialty to see a trend chart.