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Urology waiting times at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,706 people were on the Urology at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Urology across England

People waiting
4,706
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.8%
England: 64.8%
Over 52 weeks
5
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

5 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 5.4% of everyone waiting at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Urology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 61.8% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 63.8% 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
61.8%
3 months earlier · May 2026
64% then · change to latest -2.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
66.6% then · change to latest -4.8 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
63.8% then · change to latest -2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
48.1% then · change to latest +13.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202661.8%4,706
July 202660.1%4,671
June 202662.7%4,535
May 202664%4,574
April 202666.1%4,396
March 202669.3%4,491
February 202666.6%4,160
January 202667.6%4,176
December 202567.1%4,140
November 202567%4,374
October 202565.1%4,362
September 202566.8%4,430
August 202563.8%4,456
July 202564.5%4,414
June 202564.1%4,397
May 202564.8%4,470
April 202559.6%5,073
March 202555.9%5,622
February 202556.2%5,196
January 202552.6%5,381
December 202451.9%5,675
November 202450.1%5,570
October 202449.6%5,667
September 202449.1%5,901
August 202449.1%6,065
July 202448.9%6,017
June 202449.9%6,164
May 202450%6,076
April 202448.1%6,066
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 urology 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 Urology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust11.4 mi4,09358%-3.4 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi2,41564%+2.1 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust17.2 mi2,76973%+11.6 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust17.2 mi2,61765%+3.4 pp
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust19.4 mi7597%+35.5 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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