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Neurosurgery waiting times at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,148 people were on the Neurosurgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (75%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Neurosurgery across England

People waiting
1,148
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
74.7%
England: 62%
Over 52 weeks
10
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

10 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12.7 percentage points better than 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 1.3% of everyone waiting at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Neurosurgery at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 74.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 79.5% 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
74.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
73% then · change to latest +1.7 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
63.1% then · change to latest +11.6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
79.5% then · change to latest -4.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
63.8% then · change to latest +10.9 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202674.7%1,148
July 202674.5%1,003
June 202678.5%1,042
May 202673%1,003
April 202675.3%1,002
March 202677.1%888
February 202663.1%1,053
January 202664.7%1,060
December 202568.3%1,050
November 202574.9%1,055
October 202580.3%1,052
September 202580.9%993
August 202579.5%956
July 202577.1%940
June 202576.5%924
May 202576.4%956
April 202578.3%922
March 202579.1%932
February 202577.4%920
January 202577%933
December 202479.1%973
November 202475.9%975
October 202475.9%968
September 202474.8%881
August 202474.5%858
July 202473.5%871
June 202469%907
May 202468.3%939
April 202463.8%892
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 neurosurgery 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 Neurosurgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi19257%-17.9 pp
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust22 mi16049%-25.9 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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