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General medicine waiting times at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 442 people were on the General medicine at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · General medicine across England

People waiting
442
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.0%
England: 71.4%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.5 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 1.1% of everyone waiting at Northampton General Hospital 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 20.4 percentage points (80% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.3 points over 3 months (62.3% in March 2026); down 17 points over 6 months (77.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -20.4 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 202580.4%
August 202581.6%
September 202578.9%
October 202582.6%
November 202577.7%
December 202577%
January 202670%
February 202667.1%
March 202662.3%
April 202656.4%
May 202657.1%
June 202660%

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 General medicine figures at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202563980.4%0
August 202565281.6%0
September 202574178.9%0
October 202580382.6%0
November 202572777.7%0
December 202577477.0%2
January 202674470.0%7
February 202669267.1%0
March 202669062.3%0
April 202659456.4%0
May 202650157.1%1
June 202644260.0%1

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
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13 mi15100%+40.1 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.8 mi4698%+37.9 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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