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Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 139,530 people were on the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · London · ODS code RAL

People waiting (all services)
139,530
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.2%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
1,590
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

1,590 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 Free London NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics10,88051%60.6%483+2.4 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)10,13860%59.0%229+3.2 pp
Dermatology9,37981%69.0%4+22 pp
Urology9,32754%65.0%90-0.3 pp
Gastroenterology8,66769%69.3%16+6.6 pp
Cardiology8,58662%68.2%17+4.7 pp
Gynaecology8,54066%61.0%112+8.7 pp
Ophthalmology7,41367%73.8%1+0.9 pp
Neurology6,13759%61.7%6+0.6 pp
Respiratory medicine5,66075%74.8%9+6.7 pp
Oral surgery4,85660%55.0%17-6.7 pp
General surgery4,10542%63.0%189-4.6 pp
Rheumatology3,15359%70.8%1+6.1 pp
Plastic surgery3,04965%59.3%37+8.3 pp
General medicine30567%71.4%0-5.6 pp
Elderly medicine11995%83.1%0+4.6 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.3 percentage points (58% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (64.9% in March 2026); up 4.1 points over 6 months (59.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.3 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 202557.9%
August 202558.6%
September 202560.1%
October 202559%
November 202558.7%
December 202559.1%
January 202659.2%
February 202660.8%
March 202664.9%
April 202663.1%
May 202663.3%
June 202663.2%

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 all-services figures for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 2025143,12457.9%3,800
August 2025140,33158.6%3,186
September 2025137,24560.1%2,850
October 2025137,18059.0%2,635
November 2025136,98658.7%2,381
December 2025138,72159.1%2,269
January 2026140,25159.2%2,382
February 2026139,98760.8%2,395
March 2026133,39064.9%1,331
April 2026136,96863.1%1,751
May 2026139,28363.3%1,826
June 2026139,53063.2%1,590

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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