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Isle of Wight NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 12,463 people were on the Isle of Wight NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South East · ODS code R1F

People waiting (all services)
12,463
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.8%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
80
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

80 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) 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 Isle of Wight NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology2,32161%72.2%1-1.5 pp
Orthopaedics2,26952%60.9%69+6.7 pp
Cardiology79551%67.9%0+0.9 pp
Gynaecology79280%59.6%0+3.4 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)77468%56.8%0+17.7 pp
Gastroenterology74582%69.7%0+13.1 pp
General surgery72758%63.2%10+8 pp
Rheumatology66470%70.4%0-0.6 pp
Oral surgery55255%53.8%0+4.9 pp
Urology36796%64.8%0+6 pp
Respiratory medicine23087%74.1%0+21.3 pp
Elderly medicine26100%84.3%0+3.3 pp
Neurology3100%62.3%00 pp
General medicine2100%72.3%0+100 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Isle of Wight NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (63% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (64.2% in May 2026); up 4.7 points over 6 months (61.1% in February 2026); up 3.1 points over 12 months (62.7% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +2.6 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
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202563.2%
August 202562.7%
September 202563.5%
October 202563.3%
November 202562.5%
December 202561.1%
January 202660%
February 202661.1%
March 202663.2%
April 202663.2%
May 202664.2%
June 202664.2%
July 202665.8%
August 202665.8%

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 Isle of Wight NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202513,76063.2%93
August 202513,89962.7%121
September 202513,73863.5%30
October 202513,96163.3%51
November 202514,37962.5%55
December 202514,13661.1%69
January 202613,86360.0%94
February 202613,07961.1%73
March 202613,21963.2%46
April 202612,75763.2%64
May 202612,76264.2%89
June 202612,76864.2%98
July 202612,92765.8%81
August 202612,46365.8%80

Diagnostic tests

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

Nearby NHS trusts

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

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

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  • 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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