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Cardiology waiting times at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,804 people were on the Cardiology at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and more than 9 in 10 people (96%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
1,804
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
96.2%
England: 67.9%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

This hospital's published position is 28.3 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 2.5% of everyone waiting at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Cardiology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 96.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 93% 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
96.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
96.2% then · change to latest 0 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
97.2% then · change to latest -1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
93% then · change to latest +3.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
87.2% then · change to latest +9.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202696.2%1,804
July 202694.9%1,920
June 202696.6%1,977
May 202696.2%1,841
April 202695.7%1,725
March 202696.3%1,744
February 202697.2%1,489
January 202697%1,435
December 202595.6%1,360
November 202594.6%1,415
October 202594%1,394
September 202594.2%1,372
August 202593%1,220
July 202593.6%989
June 202592%996
May 202588.7%892
April 202582.3%946
March 202582.5%943
February 202585.4%1,079
January 202586.8%1,342
December 202484.5%1,405
November 202483.4%1,316
October 202485.2%1,304
September 202487.2%1,168
August 202487.6%1,189
July 202488.6%1,091
June 202486.4%1,199
May 202490.2%1,026
April 202487.2%1,037
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 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
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.3 mi8,18567%-29.3 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.9 mi10,82259%-37.7 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi80672%-23.8 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi5,06868%-28.6 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4 mi5,69562%-34.4 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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