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Gynaecology waiting times at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,362 people were on the Gynaecology at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (46%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Gynaecology across England

People waiting
4,362
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
45.8%
England: 59.6%
Over 52 weeks
126
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

126 people (2.9%, roughly 1 in 34) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 13.8 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 11.3% of everyone waiting at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Gynaecology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 45.8% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 39.3% 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
45.8%
3 months earlier · May 2026
52.7% then · change to latest -6.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
55.9% then · change to latest -10.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
39.3% then · change to latest +6.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
21% then · change to latest +24.8 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202645.8%4,362
July 202646.7%4,242
June 202651.8%3,981
May 202652.7%3,968
April 202655%3,736
March 202658.6%3,493
February 202655.9%3,518
January 202652.7%3,377
December 202547.5%3,575
November 202543.3%3,673
October 202542.6%4,516
September 202536.2%4,729
August 202539.3%5,118
July 202539%4,673
June 202543.6%4,555
May 202535.2%4,095
April 202532.9%4,236
March 202528.8%3,933
February 202525.6%3,792
January 202527.2%4,199
December 202428%4,256
November 202430.3%4,361
October 202432.6%4,378
September 202434.5%4,287
August 202426%3,069
July 202428.6%3,437
June 202421.5%3,278
May 202420.3%3,514
April 202421%3,607
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 gynaecology 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 Gynaecology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi7,13366%+20.3 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust23.4 mi4,85168%+22 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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