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Neurology waiting times at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,518 people were on the Neurology at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (76%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Neurology across England

People waiting
1,518
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
75.9%
England: 61.7%
Over 52 weeks
5
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

5 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 14.2 percentage points better than 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 1.8% of everyone waiting at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 38.6 percentage points (37% to 76%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (74.5% in March 2026); up 27.5 points over 6 months (48.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +38.6 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 202537.3%
August 202546.8%
September 202546.6%
October 202557.1%
November 202556.2%
December 202548.4%
January 202658.9%
February 202654.7%
March 202674.5%
April 202678.1%
May 202675.6%
June 202675.9%

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 Neurology figures at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,09237.3%4
August 20251,05546.8%1
September 202589146.6%5
October 202599657.1%3
November 202593656.2%2
December 202577348.4%3
January 20261,00958.9%2
February 202696254.7%0
March 20261,57374.5%3
April 20261,60378.1%2
May 20261,55375.6%4
June 20261,51875.9%5

Other NHS trusts offering neurology 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 Neurology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Medway NHS Foundation Trust24.8 mi2,01733%-43.4 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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