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Cardiothoracic surgery waiting times at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 542 people were on the Cardiothoracic surgery at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (80%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiothoracic surgery across England

People waiting
542
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
80.3%
England: 72.8%
Over 52 weeks
4
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

4 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.5 percentage points better than 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 9.6% of everyone waiting at Royal Papworth Hospital 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 7.1 percentage points (73% to 80%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.7 points over 3 months (77.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (79.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.1 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 202573.2%
August 202575.5%
September 202577.7%
October 202578.5%
November 202580.8%
December 202579.9%
January 202677.3%
February 202677.4%
March 202677.6%
April 202676.5%
May 202678.5%
June 202680.3%

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 Cardiothoracic surgery figures at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202557873.2%5
August 202554275.5%5
September 202555177.7%5
October 202552678.5%1
November 202554280.8%1
December 202554279.9%2
January 202651977.3%4
February 202650977.4%1
March 202651477.6%3
April 202650676.5%1
May 202652078.5%5
June 202654280.3%4

Other NHS trusts offering cardiothoracic surgery 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 Cardiothoracic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust22.7 mi13788%+8.1 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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