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General medicine waiting times at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 697 people were on the General medicine at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (88%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General medicine across England

People waiting
697
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
87.5%
England: 72.3%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 15.2 percentage points better than 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 0.8% of everyone waiting at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for General medicine at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 87.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 87.7% 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
87.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
91.7% then · change to latest -4.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
90.4% then · change to latest -2.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
87.7% then · change to latest -0.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
63.6% then · change to latest +23.9 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202687.5%697
July 202689.4%716
June 202691.2%669
May 202691.7%603
April 202692.2%550
March 202692.8%456
February 202690.4%375
January 202685.2%392
December 202585.8%569
November 202589.2%586
October 202592.2%476
September 202590%369
August 202587.7%317
July 202587.6%299
June 202592.1%328
May 202588.5%314
April 202592%375
March 202590.4%335
February 202588.5%364
January 202588.8%322
December 202485%274
November 202478.2%294
October 202481.2%298
September 202465.5%330
August 202462.1%404
July 202463.6%404
June 202469.7%413
May 202465.8%421
April 202463.6%464
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 general 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 General medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi27880%-7.3 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust3.4 mi22391%+4 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust3.8 mi6453%-34.4 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi6198%+10.8 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4.4 mi5,53054%-33.5 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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