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Cardiology waiting times at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 8,245 people were on the Cardiology at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (59%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
8,245
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
58.5%
England: 67.9%
Over 52 weeks
7
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

7 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.4 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; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 6% of everyone waiting at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Cardiology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Cardiology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 58.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 58.7% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
58.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
63.9% then · change to latest -5.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
59.6% then · change to latest -1.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
58.7% then · change to latest -0.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
65.1% then · change to latest -6.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202658.5%8,245
July 202661.4%8,523
June 202662.3%8,586
May 202663.9%9,006
April 202665.3%8,644
March 202666.1%8,236
February 202659.6%8,584
January 202659.3%8,770
December 202557.5%8,515
November 202557%8,308
October 202557.8%8,000
September 202560.5%8,196
August 202558.7%8,418
July 202558.9%8,524
June 202559.7%8,894
May 202557.5%8,949
April 202556.9%8,763
March 202560.4%8,440
February 202562%8,428
January 202563.5%8,313
December 202460.5%5,878
November 202463%5,776
October 202464.6%5,550
September 202464%5,377
August 202464.7%5,348
July 202467.3%5,232
June 202468.3%5,345
May 202470.6%5,296
April 202465.1%5,322
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering cardiology within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Cardiology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Whittington Health NHS Trust1.5 mi95375%+16.6 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.2 mi80672%+13.9 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.5 mi8,18567%+8.4 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi10,82259%0 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust4.8 mi1,80496%+37.7 pp

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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