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Cardiology waiting times at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,108 people were on the Cardiology at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
3,108
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
51.3%
England: 68.2%
Over 52 weeks
115
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

115 people (3.7%, roughly 1 in 27) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 16.9 percentage points behind the England figure 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 5.2% of everyone waiting at Cambridge University Hospitals 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 10.6 percentage points (41% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (50.1% in March 2026); up 8.9 points over 6 months (42.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +10.6 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 202540.7%
August 202540%
September 202540.2%
October 202542.6%
November 202542.7%
December 202542.4%
January 202644.4%
February 202647.1%
March 202650.1%
April 202649.7%
May 202650.5%
June 202651.3%

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 Cardiology figures at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,82640.7%327
August 20253,94440.0%325
September 20254,12040.2%405
October 20253,89542.6%369
November 20253,96142.7%375
December 20254,00742.4%350
January 20263,77844.4%307
February 20263,58647.1%240
March 20263,20550.1%168
April 20263,28349.7%154
May 20263,24850.5%143
June 20263,10851.3%115

Other NHS trusts offering cardiology 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 Cardiology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust0.2 mi2,19060%+8.7 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust22.9 mi2,99794%+42.7 pp
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi1,20680%+28.3 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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