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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 861 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (59%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
861
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
58.7%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
4
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

4 people (0.5%, roughly 1 in 200) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 16.1 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 2% of everyone waiting at Great Western Hospitals 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 4.2 percentage points (55% to 59%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (59.1% in March 2026); up 2.8 points over 6 months (55.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.2 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 202554.5%
August 202555%
September 202557.3%
October 202555.4%
November 202555%
December 202555.9%
January 202653.3%
February 202657.2%
March 202659.1%
April 202655.8%
May 202657.6%
June 202658.7%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202590554.5%40
August 202588855.0%15
September 202590557.3%17
October 202590255.4%7
November 202587555.0%9
December 202590155.9%5
January 202688153.3%2
February 202687357.2%3
March 202684959.1%0
April 202679755.8%1
May 202684757.6%2
June 202686158.7%4

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory medicine within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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