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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,286 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (70%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
3,286
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
70.1%
England: 74.1%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

3 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 3.8% of everyone waiting at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Respiratory medicine, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Respiratory medicine at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 70.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 62.6% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
70.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
69% then · change to latest +1.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
64.3% then · change to latest +5.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
62.6% then · change to latest +7.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
66.6% then · change to latest +3.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202670.1%3,286
July 202668.4%3,463
June 202667.7%3,493
May 202669%3,438
April 202669.7%3,367
March 202667.6%3,330
February 202664.3%3,446
January 202663.7%3,260
December 202561.6%3,152
November 202562.2%3,237
October 202557.1%2,758
September 202561.1%3,481
August 202562.6%3,514
July 202561.7%3,439
June 202561.4%3,621
May 202556.5%4,118
April 202556.1%4,330
March 202556.8%4,286
February 202558.8%3,997
January 202561.4%3,983
December 202461.7%3,865
November 202462.1%3,769
October 202461.4%3,670
September 202460.8%3,808
August 202462.1%3,817
July 202463.4%3,965
June 202465.7%3,959
May 202465.7%3,922
April 202466.6%3,784
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust11.4 mi94491%+21.2 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi1,05790%+20 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust17.2 mi1,14888%+17.6 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust17.2 mi93483%+12.4 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust23 mi3,46160%-10 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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