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Gynaecology waiting times at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,293 people were on the Gynaecology at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (65%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Gynaecology across England

People waiting
3,293
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.2%
England: 61%
Over 52 weeks
28
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

28 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 7.6% 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 3.1 percentage points (62% to 65%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (66.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (65.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.1 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 202562.1%
August 202563.7%
September 202566.1%
October 202563.6%
November 202563.7%
December 202565.2%
January 202664.9%
February 202662.9%
March 202666.6%
April 202666%
May 202664.9%
June 202665.2%

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 Gynaecology figures at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,75662.1%55
August 20252,85963.7%59
September 20252,87866.1%35
October 20252,87463.6%40
November 20252,79363.7%41
December 20252,84665.2%29
January 20262,81064.9%23
February 20262,75762.9%27
March 20263,03766.6%19
April 20263,21066.0%23
May 20263,21164.9%42
June 20263,29365.2%28

Other NHS trusts offering gynaecology 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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