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Cardiology waiting times at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,816 people were on the Cardiology at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
5,816
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.7%
England: 68.2%
Over 52 weeks
173
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

173 people (3.0%, roughly 1 in 33) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.5 percentage points behind 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 7.9% of everyone waiting at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.5 percentage points (50% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 5.3 points over 3 months (62.0% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (55.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.5 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 202550.2%
August 202549%
September 202547.9%
October 202549.6%
November 202553.8%
December 202555.9%
January 202658.3%
February 202660.3%
March 202662%
April 202659.6%
May 202657.8%
June 202656.7%

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 Cardiology figures at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,40150.2%510
August 20256,52749.0%555
September 20256,40947.9%559
October 20256,23549.6%481
November 20256,01653.8%364
December 20256,15655.9%354
January 20266,26158.3%306
February 20266,28760.3%278
March 20266,08862.0%176
April 20266,49759.6%163
May 20266,60157.8%175
June 20265,81656.7%173

Other NHS trusts offering cardiology 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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