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Gynaecology waiting times at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,147 people were on the Gynaecology at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Gynaecology across England

People waiting
6,147
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.1%
England: 61%
Over 52 weeks
6
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

6 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. This service accounts for 28.5% of everyone waiting at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 11.5 percentage points (51% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 12 points over 3 months (50.1% in March 2026); up 12.1 points over 6 months (50.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +11.5 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 202550.6%
August 202550.2%
September 202551.7%
October 202554%
November 202553.9%
December 202550%
January 202646.9%
February 202646.7%
March 202650.1%
April 202653%
May 202660%
June 202662.1%

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 Gynaecology figures at Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,90850.6%54
August 20256,92750.2%51
September 20257,02751.7%30
October 20256,74554.0%6
November 20256,41953.9%5
December 20256,22750.0%16
January 20265,90246.9%23
February 20265,77046.7%10
March 20266,04650.1%3
April 20266,10053.0%13
May 20266,21560.0%7
June 20266,14762.1%6

Other NHS trusts offering gynaecology 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 Gynaecology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust2.4 mi5,24761%-1.5 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust3.1 mi8,66660%-2.1 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust8.1 mi2,34779%+16.9 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust9.5 mi3,47561%-1.2 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust11.6 mi5,89056%-6.1 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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