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George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 19,369 people were on the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (65%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · West Midlands · ODS code RLT

People waiting (all services)
19,369
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
64.5%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
101
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

101 people (0.5%, roughly 1 in 200) 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 George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)2,26140%59.0%37-0.4 pp
Orthopaedics2,00377%60.6%1+3.4 pp
Urology1,81162%65.0%5-5.5 pp
Gynaecology1,66469%61.0%9+7.6 pp
General surgery1,33156%63.0%4+4.5 pp
Cardiology1,23580%68.2%0+1.3 pp
Gastroenterology1,16874%69.3%4-5.7 pp
Oral surgery1,13941%55.0%8-26.4 pp
Ophthalmology91177%73.8%5+19.2 pp
Respiratory medicine60075%74.8%0-0.3 pp
Rheumatology27296%70.8%0+1.9 pp
General medicine26676%71.4%0-4.2 pp
Plastic surgery10993%59.3%0+18.4 pp
Elderly medicine8785%83.1%0-5.4 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 2.3 percentage points (62% to 65%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.3 points over 3 months (66.8% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (64.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2.3 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202562.2%
August 202563%
September 202564.5%
October 202565.6%
November 202565.1%
December 202564.1%
January 202663.8%
February 202664.2%
March 202666.8%
April 202664.5%
May 202664.1%
June 202664.5%

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 all-services figures for George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202520,52562.2%371
August 202520,21763.0%170
September 202520,43864.5%166
October 202520,05865.6%163
November 202519,68065.1%173
December 202519,69764.1%155
January 202620,28763.8%236
February 202619,94464.2%199
March 202619,11866.8%91
April 202619,56964.5%133
May 202619,24064.1%119
June 202619,36964.5%101

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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