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Neurology waiting times at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,586 people were on the Neurology at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
1,586
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
74.4%
England: 62.3%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12.1 percentage points better than 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 2.6% of everyone waiting at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Neurology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 74.4% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 74.4% 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
74.4%
3 months earlier · May 2026
73.1% then · change to latest +1.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
66.8% then · change to latest +7.6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
74.4% then · change to latest 0 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
87.8% then · change to latest -13.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202674.4%1,586
July 202675.2%1,526
June 202674.9%1,476
May 202673.1%1,557
April 202670.1%1,487
March 202671.1%1,475
February 202666.8%1,635
January 202667.6%1,635
December 202570.8%1,634
November 202572.9%1,580
October 202572%1,614
September 202573.7%1,514
August 202574.4%1,452
July 202575.7%1,359
June 202580.1%1,242
May 202579%1,198
April 202576.2%1,231
March 202575.3%1,297
February 202574%1,341
January 202576.3%1,390
December 202480.5%1,356
November 202478.1%1,359
October 202478.3%1,388
September 202480.3%1,356
August 202479.2%1,340
July 202484.9%1,235
June 202486.1%1,201
May 202487.7%1,237
April 202487.8%1,273
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 neurology 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 Neurology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust22.9 mi79595%+20.4 pp
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi87268%-5.9 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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