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Download the data

Everything on ShortestWait is free to download and reuse: waiting times for every NHS England provider and specialty, monthly since April 2019, with the medians and 92nd percentiles we calculate from NHS England's weekly figures.

CSV files

Every month

Columns: period, provider_code, provider_name, provider_type, nhs_region, icb_area, specialty_code, specialty, waiting, median_weeks, p92_weeks, pct_within_18_weeks, over_52_weeks, over_65_weeks, over_104_weeks, top_band_from_weeks. Waits are in weeks. top_band_from_weeks is 104, or 52 before April 2021, when NHS England's figures stopped at "more than 52 weeks"; a median or 92nd percentile equal to it means "at least" that long, and the counts over 65 and 104 weeks are empty for those months.

JSON API

Read-only, no key needed, cached for an hour. Every response includes the period and attribution.

EndpointReturns
/api/v1/specialties.jsonSpecialties with England figures
/api/v1/providers.jsonProviders reporting this month, with location and area
/api/v1/providers/{code}.jsonOne provider: every specialty with its England rank, and a two-year trend
/api/v1/waits/{specialty}.jsonEvery provider for one specialty, ranked by median wait
/api/v1/months.jsonEngland headline figures for every month

Provider codes are NHS Organisation Data Service codes, in lower case in URLs. Specialty slugs are the ones in our page addresses, for example ophthalmology or ear-nose-and-throat.

Licence and attribution

You may copy, publish and adapt the data, including commercially, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Please credit it like this:

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times; NHS England Organisation Data Service. Derived statistics by ShortestWait (https://www.shortestwait.com).

New figures appear on the second Thursday of each month, shortly after NHS England publishes them. How we calculate the figures is explained on About the data. If you need bulk access, a different format, or a higher request rate, email hello@shortestwait.com.