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Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 35,155 people were on the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (84%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South East · ODS code RHW

People waiting (all services)
35,155
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
84.4%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
27
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

27 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) 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 Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology5,35885%73.8%2+5 pp
Gastroenterology3,81982%69.3%2+2.3 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,35481%59.0%6+1.8 pp
Cardiology3,31582%68.2%1-0.4 pp
General surgery2,92586%63.0%2+2.8 pp
Gynaecology2,90083%61.0%3+4.2 pp
Dermatology2,42286%69.0%4+5.3 pp
Urology2,27685%65.0%3-1.7 pp
Orthopaedics2,07287%60.6%2+1.3 pp
Respiratory medicine1,44491%74.8%0+3.4 pp
Neurology94789%61.7%0+6.2 pp
Rheumatology57987%70.8%0+3.1 pp
Oral surgery48987%55.0%0+0.9 pp
Plastic surgery30381%59.3%1-6 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 4.5 percentage points (80% to 84%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (83.8% in March 2026); up 2.2 points over 6 months (82.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.5 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 202579.9%
August 202579.7%
September 202580.9%
October 202581.4%
November 202581.7%
December 202582.2%
January 202683.5%
February 202682.2%
March 202683.8%
April 202683.4%
May 202683.1%
June 202684.4%

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 Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202536,76379.9%43
August 202535,01679.7%23
September 202534,51280.9%32
October 202535,56181.4%33
November 202534,17481.7%31
December 202534,23682.2%42
January 202634,56083.5%25
February 202634,76782.2%38
March 202634,67683.8%36
April 202635,32383.4%38
May 202636,11683.1%39
June 202635,15584.4%27

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

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  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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