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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 619 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (80%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
619
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
79.6%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 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 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 1.4% 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 23.6 percentage points (56% to 80%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4 points over 3 months (83.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (77.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +23.6 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 202556%
August 202555.4%
September 202554.8%
October 202554%
November 202567.7%
December 202577.9%
January 202679.3%
February 202678.9%
March 202683.6%
April 202681.9%
May 202681.5%
June 202679.6%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202577956.0%20
August 202581455.4%46
September 202579054.8%34
October 202564854.0%18
November 202559767.7%4
December 202555177.9%6
January 202648779.3%4
February 202648978.9%1
March 202652483.6%0
April 202650781.9%0
May 202658381.5%0
June 202661979.6%0

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory 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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