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Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 21,543 people were on the Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · West Midlands · ODS code RQ3

People waiting (all services)
21,543
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.9%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
105
Services reported
4
with people currently waiting

105 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 Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Gynaecology6,14762%61.0%6+12.2 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)30%59.0%00 pp
Urology10%65.0%0—
Orthopaedics1100%60.6%0—

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 8.9 percentage points (57% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.8 points over 3 months (62.1% in March 2026); up 7 points over 6 months (58.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.9 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%
August 202556.3%
September 202557.3%
October 202558.7%
November 202558.6%
December 202558.9%
January 202658.6%
February 202658.8%
March 202662.1%
April 202662.1%
May 202664.8%
June 202665.9%

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 Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202526,37657.0%267
August 202525,19756.3%293
September 202524,72857.3%236
October 202523,54858.7%145
November 202522,59758.6%127
December 202522,38458.9%148
January 202621,48358.6%187
February 202621,71958.8%181
March 202621,84162.1%132
April 202621,79262.1%130
May 202622,00864.8%110
June 202621,54365.9%105

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

Appointment letters carry the contact route for the team holding the referral. We only list contact details we have checked against the organisation's own published pages, and none are listed here yet.

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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