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Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 43,280 people were on the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South West · ODS code REF

People waiting (all services)
43,280
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
74.3%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
463
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

463 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) 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 Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics5,62449%60.6%330-1.3 pp
Ophthalmology3,89781%73.8%9+4.7 pp
Dermatology3,57486%69.0%0+10.2 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,32378%59.0%17+1.5 pp
Gynaecology3,29365%61.0%280 pp
Cardiology2,65564%68.2%15+0.8 pp
Gastroenterology2,37690%69.3%0-4.4 pp
Oral surgery2,36874%55.0%9-0.7 pp
General surgery1,98960%63.0%22-1.7 pp
Urology1,78060%65.0%2-11.1 pp
Neurology91790%61.7%0+13.4 pp
Rheumatology65195%70.8%1+1.3 pp
Respiratory medicine61980%74.8%0+1.8 pp
Elderly medicine28592%83.1%0+13.4 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 2.2 percentage points (72% to 74%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (73.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (73.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2.2 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 202572.1%
August 202571.1%
September 202571.4%
October 202572.4%
November 202572.9%
December 202573.1%
January 202672.9%
February 202672.2%
March 202673.6%
April 202673.6%
May 202674%
June 202674.3%

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 Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202540,86972.1%460
August 202541,25471.1%433
September 202540,49571.4%334
October 202540,75472.4%312
November 202540,99572.9%298
December 202541,19973.1%255
January 202640,92472.9%248
February 202640,84472.2%275
March 202641,86273.6%250
April 202642,10273.6%297
May 202642,57774.0%406
June 202643,28074.3%463

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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