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Cardiothoracic surgery waiting times at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 573 people were on the Cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Cardiothoracic surgery across England

People waiting
573
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
73.8%
England: 72.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 0.7% of everyone waiting at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6 percentage points (68% to 74%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3 points over 3 months (76.8% in March 2026); up 2.1 points over 6 months (71.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +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 202567.8%
August 202564.4%
September 202567.8%
October 202568%
November 202567.5%
December 202571.7%
January 202671.9%
February 202673.3%
March 202676.8%
April 202678.8%
May 202676.1%
June 202673.8%

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 Cardiothoracic surgery figures at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202548567.8%2
August 202548664.4%5
September 202551867.8%6
October 202549068.0%4
November 202549267.5%1
December 202554071.7%1
January 202653871.9%2
February 202650173.3%1
March 202650976.8%0
April 202652378.8%0
May 202653676.1%0
June 202657373.8%0

Other NHS trusts offering cardiothoracic surgery 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 Cardiothoracic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi3100%+26.2 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.7 mi3174%+0.4 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust4.9 mi10180%+6.4 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust5.1 mi12100%+26.2 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi31098%+24.2 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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