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Bristol NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 50,868 people were on the Bristol NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South West · ODS code RA7

People waiting (all services)
50,868
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.9%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
442
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

442 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) 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 Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology6,79076%73.8%3-0.4 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)5,41168%59.0%0+7.2 pp
Cardiology4,58659%68.2%17-6.2 pp
Gynaecology3,68762%61.0%24-1.8 pp
Oral surgery2,55570%55.0%0+13 pp
Dermatology2,36587%69.0%0+8.5 pp
Orthopaedics1,69668%60.6%2-6.2 pp
Respiratory medicine1,36974%74.8%0+5.5 pp
Gastroenterology97765%69.3%0-3.4 pp
Neurology62873%61.7%1-2.6 pp
Rheumatology55697%70.8%0+19.6 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery40470%72.8%0-18.4 pp
Elderly medicine20191%83.1%0+0.1 pp
General surgery11177%63.0%0-14.2 pp
General medicine1100%71.4%0—

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.7 percentage points (65% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (68.0% in March 2026); up 2 points over 6 months (66.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.7 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 202565.2%
August 202564.6%
September 202565.8%
October 202566.2%
November 202567.3%
December 202566.9%
January 202667.3%
February 202667.5%
March 202668%
April 202668.5%
May 202668.5%
June 202668.9%

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 Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202554,60265.2%726
August 202554,26864.6%794
September 202554,07465.8%791
October 202552,86666.2%736
November 202552,43467.3%675
December 202550,72966.9%638
January 202650,52067.3%490
February 202650,14267.5%390
March 202649,92468.0%312
April 202650,48468.5%370
May 202650,24568.5%419
June 202650,86868.9%442

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

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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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