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Neurosurgery waiting times at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 562 people were on the Neurosurgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (67%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Neurosurgery across England

People waiting
562
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
66.5%
England: 62.8%
Over 52 weeks
30
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

30 people (5.3%, roughly 1 in 19) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

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; 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 Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 4.6 percentage points (71% to 67%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.8 points over 3 months (69.3% in March 2026); down 4.2 points over 6 months (70.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4.6 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 202571.1%
August 202572.1%
September 202571.4%
October 202570.1%
November 202569.6%
December 202570.7%
January 202673%
February 202670.6%
March 202669.3%
April 202669.2%
May 202668.7%
June 202666.5%

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 Neurosurgery figures at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202554471.1%22
August 202552772.1%18
September 202554671.4%20
October 202548170.1%10
November 202553369.6%17
December 202552970.7%21
January 202653373.0%16
February 202652770.6%13
March 202653769.3%15
April 202658869.2%19
May 202658468.7%24
June 202656266.5%30

Other NHS trusts offering neurosurgery within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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