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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,903 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (89%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
1,903
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
88.6%
England: 74.1%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
7 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 14.5 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 2.2% of everyone waiting at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Respiratory medicine at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 88.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 67.7% 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
88.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
81.2% then · change to latest +7.4 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
76.5% then · change to latest +12.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
67.7% then · change to latest +20.9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
65.5% then · change to latest +23.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202688.6%1,903
July 202686.3%1,828
June 202678%2,144
May 202681.2%1,976
April 202683.8%2,085
March 202686%1,851
February 202676.5%1,946
January 202678.5%1,967
December 202573.1%1,873
November 202571.8%1,740
October 202567.2%1,708
September 202567.8%1,762
August 202567.7%1,885
July 202566.3%1,958
June 202568.8%1,966
May 202567.6%1,931
April 202567.3%1,854
March 202568.6%1,954
February 202567.4%1,928
January 202568.1%1,942
December 202472.4%2,215
November 202469.1%1,923
October 202468.8%1,940
September 202468.1%2,114
August 202465%2,131
July 202464.1%2,090
June 202463.2%2,017
May 202463.1%2,056
April 202465.5%1,996
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 respiratory 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi1,51490%+1.6 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi1,74672%-16.2 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22 mi47775%-13.8 pp
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust22 mi2,27882%-6.2 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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