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East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 57,636 people were on the East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (65%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · East of England · ODS code RWH

People waiting (all services)
57,636
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.2%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
853
Services reported
17
with people currently waiting

853 people (1.5%, roughly 1 in 67) 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 East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)6,06155%56.8%61-1.3 pp
Orthopaedics4,91748%60.9%273-4.1 pp
Gynaecology4,85168%59.6%46-2.9 pp
Urology4,09358%64.8%45-7.9 pp
Cardiology3,78595%67.9%0+1.6 pp
Plastic surgery3,32773%59.4%63+0.9 pp
Ophthalmology2,61879%72.2%29+5.9 pp
Gastroenterology2,25665%69.7%30-1 pp
General surgery2,22866%63.2%5-6.2 pp
Dermatology1,91258%69.0%102-0.2 pp
Rheumatology1,37558%70.4%1-2.4 pp
Oral surgery1,16246%53.8%71+9.1 pp
Respiratory medicine94491%74.1%0+8 pp
Neurology79595%62.3%0+2.3 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery15691%73.6%0+2.7 pp
Elderly medicine14581%84.3%0-8.1 pp
General medicine32100%72.3%0+3.6 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (62% to 65%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (66.1% in May 2026); down 2.6 points over 6 months (67.8% in February 2026); up 4 points over 12 months (61.2% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +2.9 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 202562.3%
August 202561.2%
September 202563.2%
October 202565%
November 202566.1%
December 202567.2%
January 202667.2%
February 202667.8%
March 202669.1%
April 202667%
May 202666.1%
June 202665.2%
July 202665.7%
August 202665.2%

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 East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202551,80662.3%746
August 202550,87561.2%781
September 202551,03463.2%723
October 202552,34065.0%743
November 202553,22466.1%656
December 202553,65267.2%612
January 202653,14967.2%475
February 202653,80267.8%434
March 202654,33269.1%340
April 202654,89867.0%357
May 202654,01866.1%418
June 202653,73065.2%540
July 202655,86165.7%705
August 202657,63665.2%853

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.

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

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  • 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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