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Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 21,978 people were on the Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (71%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · Yorkshire and The Humber · ODS code RFF

People waiting (all services)
21,978
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
71.2%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
99
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

99 people (0.5%, roughly 1 in 200) 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 Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,45665%59.0%16-0.1 pp
Ophthalmology3,45471%73.8%6-0.5 pp
Orthopaedics2,61858%60.6%42+5 pp
Gynaecology2,22071%61.0%16+18.8 pp
General surgery2,07369%63.0%2-2.4 pp
Dermatology1,58076%69.0%0+17.4 pp
Oral surgery1,46153%55.0%8-0.5 pp
Urology1,17269%65.0%9+7.8 pp
Gastroenterology1,08793%69.3%0+12.1 pp
Cardiology71497%68.2%0+18.8 pp
Respiratory medicine32695%74.8%0-1.6 pp
Rheumatology22099%70.8%0+0.3 pp
Elderly medicine11197%83.1%0-0.1 pp
General medicine35100%71.4%0+2.3 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 2.4 percentage points (69% to 71%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (71.0% in March 2026); up 6.1 points over 6 months (65.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2.4 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 202568.8%
August 202566.3%
September 202565.7%
October 202565.5%
November 202565.8%
December 202565.1%
January 202667.2%
February 202668.1%
March 202671%
April 202672%
May 202672.1%
June 202671.2%

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 Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202525,97368.8%166
August 202526,33266.3%199
September 202525,05365.7%228
October 202524,97265.5%235
November 202524,24065.8%202
December 202522,96065.1%167
January 202622,14467.2%139
February 202621,90168.1%128
March 202621,49471.0%136
April 202621,85972.0%109
May 202622,32472.1%104
June 202621,97871.2%99

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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