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Elderly medicine waiting times at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 285 people were on the Elderly medicine at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (92%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
285
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
92.3%
England: 83.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
7 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 9.2 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 0.7% of everyone waiting at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 7.9 percentage points (84% to 92%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 11.7 points over 3 months (80.6% in March 2026); up 13.4 points over 6 months (78.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.9 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 202584.4%
August 202587.8%
September 202586.2%
October 202582.5%
November 202580.4%
December 202578.9%
January 202677%
February 202675.4%
March 202680.6%
April 202681.6%
May 202685%
June 202692.3%

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 Elderly medicine figures at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202538584.4%0
August 202537787.8%0
September 202535686.2%0
October 202540682.5%0
November 202544480.4%0
December 202545578.9%0
January 202644077.0%0
February 202641975.4%0
March 202634180.6%0
April 202633281.6%0
May 202632785.0%0
June 202628592.3%0

Other NHS trusts offering elderly medicine within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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