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Neurosurgery waiting times at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,018 people were on the Neurosurgery at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Neurosurgery across England

People waiting
3,018
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.9%
England: 62%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.1 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; 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 3.6% of everyone waiting at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Neurosurgery at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 55.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 41.4% 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
55.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
61.1% then · change to latest -5.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
56.5% then · change to latest -0.6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
41.4% then · change to latest +14.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
36% then · change to latest +19.9 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202655.9%3,018
July 202663.2%2,939
June 202663.4%3,030
May 202661.1%2,853
April 202661.6%3,029
March 202663.7%3,139
February 202656.5%2,796
January 202660.4%2,803
December 202564.9%2,898
November 202562.3%2,925
October 202559.4%3,093
September 202551.2%3,241
August 202541.4%3,394
July 202538.6%3,613
June 202537.3%3,541
May 202537%3,595
April 202539.8%4,097
March 202545%4,411
February 202549.3%4,901
January 202547.9%4,963
December 202449.6%5,089
November 202446%5,422
October 202446.6%5,497
September 202444.3%5,810
August 202443.1%5,673
July 202441.4%5,639
June 202438.7%5,928
May 202438.8%5,870
April 202436%6,200
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 neurosurgery 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 Neurosurgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1.7 mi3,57862%+6 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust4.9 mi2,77965%+9.5 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust5.1 mi1,44150%-6.2 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi4,08759%+2.8 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust7.5 mi1100%+44.1 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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