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Barts Health NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 121,533 people were on the Barts Health NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (64%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · London · ODS code R1H

People waiting (all services)
121,533
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.9%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
1,095
Services reported
18
with people currently waiting

1,095 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) 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 Barts Health NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Gynaecology8,87865%61.0%14+6.2 pp
Orthopaedics8,71058%60.6%83+3.4 pp
Cardiology8,61276%68.2%1+10.4 pp
Gastroenterology8,15662%69.3%10+6.4 pp
Dermatology7,22458%69.0%68+8 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)6,24646%59.0%226+0.5 pp
Urology6,22259%65.0%33+8.7 pp
Ophthalmology6,12368%73.8%2-1.5 pp
Respiratory medicine4,93171%74.8%8+22 pp
General surgery4,44866%63.0%60+14.4 pp
Oral surgery3,57360%55.0%88+9 pp
Neurology2,89859%61.7%4+9.7 pp
Neurosurgery1,52755%62.8%23+7.5 pp
Rheumatology1,32280%70.8%0+6.4 pp
Plastic surgery1,29053%59.3%71+9.4 pp
Elderly medicine16792%83.1%0-3.9 pp
General medicine5754%71.4%0-3.6 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery12100%72.8%0+50 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Barts Health NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.8 percentage points (57% to 64%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (62.4% in March 2026); up 7.8 points over 6 months (56.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.8 points

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

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202557.1%
August 202556.2%
September 202556.5%
October 202556.4%
November 202556%
December 202556.1%
January 202656.7%
February 202658.9%
March 202662.4%
April 202662.9%
May 202663.4%
June 202663.9%

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 Barts Health NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 2025134,46157.1%4,680
August 2025134,06456.2%4,509
September 2025133,50456.5%3,879
October 2025132,92356.4%3,589
November 2025133,32756.0%3,579
December 2025132,50956.1%3,476
January 2026132,11256.7%2,718
February 2026128,33258.9%1,814
March 2026121,51162.4%1,008
April 2026121,80362.9%1,192
May 2026121,70663.4%1,163
June 2026121,53363.9%1,095

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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