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Gynaecology waiting times at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 7,809 people were on the Gynaecology at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
7,809
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.4%
England: 59.6%
Over 52 weeks
55
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

55 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) 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; 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 5.7% of everyone waiting at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Gynaecology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 63.4% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 57.3% 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
63.4%
3 months earlier · May 2026
64.3% then · change to latest -0.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
60.2% then · change to latest +3.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
57.3% then · change to latest +6.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
49.8% then · change to latest +13.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202663.4%7,809
July 202664.8%8,019
June 202665.9%8,540
May 202664.3%8,734
April 202663.5%8,517
March 202665.8%7,950
February 202660.2%8,661
January 202658.2%8,796
December 202557.2%8,455
November 202557.2%8,138
October 202557%8,168
September 202557.8%8,338
August 202557.3%8,460
July 202556.1%8,338
June 202553.9%8,694
May 202552.8%9,017
April 202553%9,286
March 202554.9%9,139
February 202555%9,092
January 202555.3%8,972
December 202452.3%6,573
November 202451.7%6,632
October 202451.1%6,847
September 202453.9%6,691
August 202454.8%6,398
July 202454.1%6,555
June 202452.9%6,963
May 202452.7%6,659
April 202449.8%6,450
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 gynaecology 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 Gynaecology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Whittington Health NHS Trust1.5 mi3,18959%-3.9 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.2 mi6,30153%-10.5 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.5 mi7,05173%+9.8 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi7,56449%-14.3 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust4.8 mi6,95887%+23.4 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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