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Elderly medicine waiting times at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 326 people were on the Elderly medicine at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (77%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
326
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
77.0%
England: 83.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 6.1 percentage points behind the England figure for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 0.4% of everyone waiting at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 17.7 percentage points (95% to 77%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 14.9 points over 3 months (91.9% in March 2026); down 8.5 points over 6 months (85.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -17.7 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 202594.7%
August 202592.4%
September 202593.5%
October 202584.7%
November 202586.1%
December 202585.5%
January 202694%
February 202694.7%
March 202691.9%
April 202689.2%
May 202682.1%
June 202677%

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 Elderly medicine figures at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202524494.7%1
August 202528992.4%0
September 202529493.5%0
October 202532684.7%0
November 202529486.1%0
December 202529085.5%0
January 202626894.0%0
February 202624394.7%0
March 202625891.9%0
April 202629689.2%0
May 202629682.1%0
June 202632677.0%0

Other NHS trusts offering elderly medicine within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Elderly medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust11.4 mi15481%+4.2 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi13100%+23 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust17.2 mi5895%+17.8 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust17.2 mi213100%+23 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust23 mi8698%+20.7 pp

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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