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Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 27,020 people were on the Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · East Midlands · ODS code RFS

People waiting (all services)
27,020
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.9%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
568
Services reported
13
with people currently waiting

568 people (2.1%, roughly 1 in 48) 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 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)2,56068%59.0%39+22.3 pp
Gynaecology2,53457%61.0%82+6 pp
Orthopaedics2,34351%60.6%63+5.2 pp
Dermatology2,22965%69.0%2+11.3 pp
Ophthalmology2,14772%73.8%5+6.3 pp
Urology1,70358%65.0%52+4.4 pp
Gastroenterology1,64266%69.3%15+11.6 pp
General surgery1,31148%63.0%159+2.9 pp
Oral surgery1,10360%55.0%47+22 pp
Cardiology1,07368%68.2%15-0.4 pp
Respiratory medicine50975%74.8%1-2.8 pp
General medicine46170%71.4%2+5.8 pp
Rheumatology34880%70.8%4+40.9 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.8 percentage points (59% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (61.8% in March 2026); up 9.2 points over 6 months (53.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.8 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202559.1%
August 202558.5%
September 202557.6%
October 202556.6%
November 202555%
December 202553.7%
January 202653.9%
February 202657.3%
March 202661.8%
April 202661.5%
May 202662.1%
June 202662.9%

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 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202531,82859.1%1,000
August 202532,39658.5%1,068
September 202532,04357.6%1,175
October 202531,29656.6%1,335
November 202530,15955.0%1,453
December 202528,84153.7%1,297
January 202628,29353.9%1,277
February 202627,63357.3%1,140
March 202627,03861.8%703
April 202627,42861.5%668
May 202627,34162.1%627
June 202627,02062.9%568

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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