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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 509 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (75%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
509
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
75.0%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 1.9% of everyone waiting at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 2.8 percentage points (78% to 75%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 8.8 points over 3 months (83.8% in March 2026); down 2.8 points over 6 months (77.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -2.8 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 202577.8%
August 202572.3%
September 202571.2%
October 202568.9%
November 202577.3%
December 202577.8%
January 202680.7%
February 202686.9%
March 202683.8%
April 202678.7%
May 202677.2%
June 202675%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202548277.8%1
August 202548872.3%1
September 202545571.2%1
October 202546668.9%1
November 202542277.3%1
December 202538877.8%0
January 202639380.7%1
February 202638886.9%2
March 202643183.8%3
April 202647978.7%1
May 202649177.2%1
June 202650975.0%1

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory medicine 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust9.7 mi1,57091%+15.5 pp
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust12.5 mi88593%+17.7 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi2,14478%+3 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.8 mi32695%+20.4 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust23 mi1,62879%+3.8 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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