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Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 54,116 people were on the Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South East · ODS code RTK

People waiting (all services)
54,116
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.6%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
735
Services reported
17
with people currently waiting

735 people (1.4%, roughly 1 in 71) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics7,88466%60.6%158-3.3 pp
Dermatology5,09466%69.0%1+1.7 pp
Ophthalmology4,94568%73.8%8+9.4 pp
Oral surgery4,58353%55.0%105+7.5 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)4,36960%59.0%69+12.5 pp
Gynaecology3,78855%61.0%14-2.5 pp
Cardiology2,50768%68.2%2-8.1 pp
Urology1,99557%65.0%32+1.5 pp
Gastroenterology1,65763%69.3%6+14.6 pp
Respiratory medicine1,28769%74.8%2+2.8 pp
Neurology98958%61.7%1+0.6 pp
Rheumatology39064%70.8%0-18.4 pp
General surgery36275%63.0%0+19 pp
Elderly medicine25379%83.1%0-4.7 pp
General medicine126100%71.4%00 pp
Plastic surgery20100%59.3%0+5.6 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery1090%72.8%0-10 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.1 percentage points (58% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (61.9% in March 2026); up 3.7 points over 6 months (58.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.1 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202557.5%
August 202557.2%
September 202558%
October 202558.9%
November 202559%
December 202558.9%
January 202658.8%
February 202660.6%
March 202661.9%
April 202662.2%
May 202662.7%
June 202662.6%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202555,87457.5%977
August 202555,23557.2%1,092
September 202555,85058.0%1,017
October 202554,38458.9%1,001
November 202551,96259.0%662
December 202551,31058.9%621
January 202650,62158.8%710
February 202649,63860.6%621
March 202650,93261.9%599
April 202651,38962.2%610
May 202652,85662.7%740
June 202654,11662.6%735

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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