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Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of July 2026, 39,940 people were on the Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · East Midlands · ODS code RNS

People waiting (all services)
39,940
End of July 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.6%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
293
Services reported
0
with people currently waiting

293 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) 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 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and July 2026 the share of people waiting at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (63% to 61%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (60.9% in April 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (59.3% in January 2026); down 2.3 points over 12 months (62.9% in July 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · -2.3 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 13 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202562.9%
August 202562.7%
September 202561.1%
October 202561.5%
November 202560.5%
December 202560.1%
January 202659.3%
February 202659.9%
March 202661.1%
April 202660.9%
May 202661.3%
June 202661.3%
July 202660.6%

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 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202543,44562.9%588
August 202543,62862.7%775
September 202544,90861.1%897
October 202543,95261.5%702
November 202543,57960.5%611
December 202543,34060.1%559
January 202642,78159.3%689
February 202642,54159.9%631
March 202639,77461.1%470
April 202640,83760.9%413
May 202640,76961.3%429
June 202639,60461.3%374
July 202639,94060.6%293

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

  • 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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