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Urology waiting times at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,896 people were on the Urology at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (47%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · NHS trust · Urology across England

People waiting
2,896
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
46.7%
England: 64.8%
Over 52 weeks
127
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

127 people (4.4%, roughly 1 in 23) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.1 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 5.2% of everyone waiting at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Urology at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 46.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 52.3% 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
46.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
51.3% then · change to latest -4.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
55.7% then · change to latest -8.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
52.3% then · change to latest -5.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
66.3% then · change to latest -19.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202646.7%2,896
July 202648.4%3,240
June 202651.9%3,667
May 202651.3%3,717
April 202652.2%3,693
March 202656.4%3,700
February 202655.7%3,676
January 202656.9%3,583
December 202557.7%3,461
November 202558.2%3,292
October 202557.5%3,262
September 202555.1%3,043
August 202552.3%2,924
July 202554.4%3,233
June 202552.7%2,941
May 202551%2,858
April 202551.2%3,006
March 202555.1%3,188
February 202556.8%3,240
January 202557.9%3,199
December 202459%3,159
November 202459%3,041
October 202458.4%3,122
September 202460.4%3,043
August 202458.5%2,842
July 202460.3%2,675
June 202462.4%2,602
May 202465.3%2,471
April 202466.3%2,344
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 urology 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 Urology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi4,19769%+22.4 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust4.7 mi6,07162%+15.4 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust5.3 mi6,21753%+6 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust5.9 mi1,56691%+44.6 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust6.9 mi1,55665%+18 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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