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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 9,635 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
9,635
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.5%
England: 74.1%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

3 people (0.0%) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12.6 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 8.8% of everyone waiting at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Respiratory medicine, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Respiratory medicine at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 61.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 60.4% 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
61.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
63% then · change to latest -1.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
61.9% then · change to latest -0.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
60.4% then · change to latest +1.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
63.8% then · change to latest -2.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202661.5%9,635
July 202661.5%9,721
June 202661.7%10,097
May 202663%10,431
April 202662.4%10,018
March 202662.8%9,657
February 202661.9%9,632
January 202659.8%9,897
December 202557.7%10,025
November 202557.5%9,867
October 202558.6%10,079
September 202559.6%9,959
August 202560.4%9,982
July 202561.8%9,880
June 202560.4%10,349
May 202561.2%10,190
April 202559.4%10,254
March 202558.4%10,491
February 202559.2%10,174
January 202557.7%10,225
December 202457.5%10,503
November 202458.2%10,628
October 202460.1%10,616
September 202461.5%10,722
August 202462.9%10,791
July 202464.6%10,458
June 202465.4%9,968
May 202466.1%9,408
April 202463.8%8,689
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 respiratory medicine 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.1 mi74188%+26.5 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi3,20372%+10.2 pp
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust2.4 mi1100%+38.5 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.7 mi2,22282%+20 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.9 mi1,58684%+22.7 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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