Hospital waiting times

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 86,732 people were on the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · Yorkshire and The Humber · ODS code RWA

People waiting (all services): 86,732; End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks: 55.4%; England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks: 3,500
Services reported: 18; with people currently waiting

3,500 people (4.0%, roughly 1 in 25) 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 Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Service	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	England	Over 52 weeks	6-month change
Ophthalmology	9,306	61%	72.2%	274	-3.1 pp
General surgery	7,710	58%	63.2%	283	+3.2 pp
Gynaecology	7,065	47%	59.6%	494	-1.5 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)	6,701	49%	56.8%	243	+3.3 pp
Neurology	5,331	52%	62.3%	153	-3.7 pp
Plastic surgery	4,942	44%	59.4%	728	+1.5 pp
Orthopaedics	4,784	61%	60.9%	156	+4 pp
Cardiology	4,506	50%	67.9%	108	-3.3 pp
Urology	4,253	53%	64.8%	165	-0.1 pp
Dermatology	4,003	47%	69.0%	239	+4.8 pp
Neurosurgery	3,870	60%	62.0%	109	-0.4 pp
Gastroenterology	3,208	52%	69.7%	102	+3 pp
Respiratory medicine	2,609	72%	74.1%	5	+11.7 pp
Oral surgery	2,410	50%	53.8%	70	+6.7 pp
Rheumatology	1,213	67%	70.4%	0	-3.4 pp
General medicine	579	77%	72.3%	2	-1.2 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery	381	75%	73.6%	6	+3.3 pp
Elderly medicine	87	74%	84.3%	0	-3.8 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (58% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (57.2% in May 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (54.6% in February 2026); broadly unchanged over 12 months (56.7% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · -2.5 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
Month	Within 18 weeks
July 2025	57.9%
August 2025	56.7%
September 2025	56.7%
October 2025	56.5%
November 2025	56%
December 2025	55.6%
January 2026	54.9%
February 2026	54.6%
March 2026	56.3%
April 2026	56.3%
May 2026	57.2%
June 2026	56.8%
July 2026	56%
August 2026	55.4%

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 Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Month	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Over 52 weeks
July 2025	79,782	57.9%	2,954
August 2025	80,655	56.7%	3,261
September 2025	80,584	56.7%	3,216
October 2025	81,280	56.5%	3,221
November 2025	80,790	56.0%	3,291
December 2025	81,643	55.6%	3,072
January 2026	81,339	54.9%	3,157
February 2026	81,319	54.6%	3,110
March 2026	80,999	56.3%	2,796
April 2026	83,615	56.3%	2,888
May 2026	84,209	57.2%	3,069
June 2026	84,186	56.8%	3,188
July 2026	85,759	56.0%	3,331
August 2026	86,732	55.4%	3,500

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Ultrasound (non-obstetric)5,583 waiting · 25.1% over 6 wks
MRI scan5,099 waiting · 32.6% over 6 wks
Echocardiogram2,705 waiting · 67.0% over 6 wks
CT scan2,652 waiting · 14.4% over 6 wks
DEXA scan2,294 waiting · 62.9% over 6 wks
Sleep studies and lung function1,415 waiting · 54.5% over 6 wks
Hearing tests (audiology)1,183 waiting · 32.2% over 6 wks
Gastroscopy1,006 waiting · 47.8% over 6 wks
Colonoscopy1,001 waiting · 34.8% over 6 wks
Cystoscopy325 waiting · 32.3% over 6 wks
Nerve conduction studies269 waiting · 6.7% over 6 wks
Flexible sigmoidoscopy202 waiting · 16.3% over 6 wks
Urodynamics125 waiting · 36.8% over 6 wks
Barium enema41 waiting · 2.4% over 6 wks
Cardiac electrophysiologyReported with no one on the waiting list at the end of the month

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust · 17.5 mi43,139 waiting · 59%

Waiting times across this area

This organisation is covered by the following area pages, which compare the published figures of every NHS trust in the same area.

NHS trusts in the Yorkshire and the Humber

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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.

Related guides on this site

What happens after 52 weeks on a waiting list
Background on how year-plus waits are treated in NHS reporting.
Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
How to use PALS about a waiting list
Reference article explaining what a Patient Advice and Liaison Service does.

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