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Croydon Health Services NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 36,350 people were on the Croydon Health Services NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (73%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · London · ODS code RJ6

People waiting (all services)
36,350
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
72.8%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
637
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

637 people (1.8%, roughly 1 in 56) 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 Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Gynaecology3,93973%59.6%73+11.7 pp
Orthopaedics3,70680%60.9%13+6.8 pp
Oral surgery2,95043%53.8%153+7.7 pp
Dermatology2,87565%69.0%127+10.5 pp
General surgery2,32966%63.2%12+1.8 pp
Gastroenterology2,25779%69.7%15+9.8 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)2,19654%56.8%119+13.4 pp
Urology1,56691%64.8%1+4.9 pp
Cardiology1,46778%67.9%0-9.9 pp
Rheumatology1,14667%70.4%0+8.7 pp
Respiratory medicine99198%74.1%1-1.6 pp
Neurology76678%62.3%0-16.2 pp
Elderly medicine18896%84.3%0-0.5 pp
Plastic surgery8460%59.4%7-5.8 pp
General medicine5100%72.3%0+8 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5 percentage points (68% to 73%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (71.1% in May 2026); up 6.4 points over 6 months (66.4% in February 2026); up 4.3 points over 12 months (68.5% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +5 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202567.8%
August 202568.5%
September 202568.3%
October 202567.5%
November 202566.9%
December 202565.3%
January 202666%
February 202666.4%
March 202671%
April 202670.4%
May 202671.1%
June 202672.6%
July 202672.9%
August 202672.8%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202537,03167.8%866
August 202536,89268.5%734
September 202536,82968.3%639
October 202537,11567.5%607
November 202537,33666.9%553
December 202536,01565.3%491
January 202636,24866.0%585
February 202634,77166.4%585
March 202632,34171.0%280
April 202634,20870.4%419
May 202635,65471.1%624
June 202637,03172.6%721
July 202637,33872.9%711
August 202636,35072.8%637

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for August 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Waiting times across this area

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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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