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Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 57,558 people were on the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South East · ODS code RHU

People waiting (all services)
57,558
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.1%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
2,072
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

2,072 people (3.6%, roughly 1 in 28) 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 Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)7,04955%59.0%498+9.2 pp
Ophthalmology6,75059%73.8%139-4.5 pp
General surgery5,86969%63.0%175+7.6 pp
Orthopaedics5,21049%60.6%150-1.6 pp
Gynaecology5,00156%61.0%147+1.6 pp
Oral surgery4,30443%55.0%405+1.9 pp
Gastroenterology4,14170%69.3%142+4 pp
Dermatology3,98866%69.0%48+10.1 pp
Cardiology3,16572%68.2%5+4 pp
Urology2,41273%65.0%61-1.6 pp
Respiratory medicine58896%74.8%0+0.5 pp
Rheumatology49698%70.8%0+2.3 pp
Plastic surgery46762%59.3%17+5.4 pp
Elderly medicine5886%83.1%0-12.3 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.8 percentage points (57% to 61%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (61.4% in March 2026); up 3.6 points over 6 months (57.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.8 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202557.3%
August 202557.5%
September 202558.3%
October 202557.9%
November 202558.4%
December 202557.5%
January 202656.7%
February 202657.6%
March 202661.4%
April 202659.2%
May 202660.9%
June 202661.1%

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 all-services figures for Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202559,61857.3%2,297
August 202558,26257.5%2,263
September 202559,96858.3%2,764
October 202559,32857.9%2,698
November 202558,22058.4%2,515
December 202557,51457.5%2,048
January 202657,44256.7%2,051
February 202657,35357.6%2,083
March 202653,43761.4%1,909
April 202656,60459.2%2,101
May 202656,58460.9%2,012
June 202657,55861.1%2,072

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.

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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