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Cardiology waiting times at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,790 people were on the Cardiology at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (49%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
1,790
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
49.1%
England: 67.9%
Over 52 weeks
15
Median wait
19 wks
Published median for this list

15 people (0.8%, roughly 1 in 125) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.8 percentage points behind 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 7.7% of everyone waiting at Dorset County 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 deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Cardiology at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 49.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 69.8% 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
49.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
58.6% then · change to latest -9.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
63.1% then · change to latest -14 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
69.8% then · change to latest -20.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
67.1% then · change to latest -18 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202649.1%1,790
July 202651.8%1,808
June 202657.3%1,796
May 202658.6%1,711
April 202660.3%1,689
March 202661.6%1,532
February 202663.1%1,417
January 202667.5%1,323
December 202571.9%1,334
November 202572.1%1,260
October 202570.3%1,197
September 202569.1%1,135
August 202569.8%1,075
July 202567.5%1,060
June 202566.5%1,073
May 202570.1%1,105
April 202570.2%1,035
March 202573%989
February 202575.1%991
January 202569%1,019
December 202468.9%989
November 202465.4%957
October 202464.3%957
September 202463.1%1,037
August 202460%1,032
July 202461.7%1,022
June 202462.7%973
May 202470.2%912
April 202467.1%870
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
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust20.7 mi3,59679%+30 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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