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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,938 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and more than 9 in 10 people (96%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
2,938
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
95.5%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
6 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 20.7 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 51.8% 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 24.7 percentage points (71% to 96%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.2 points over 3 months (93.3% in March 2026); up 12.6 points over 6 months (82.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +24.7 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 202570.8%
August 202573.8%
September 202578.9%
October 202581.6%
November 202582.8%
December 202582.9%
January 202686%
February 202686.6%
March 202693.3%
April 202694.1%
May 202695%
June 202695.5%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,68570.8%3
August 20253,46373.8%2
September 20253,42078.9%2
October 20253,29081.6%0
November 20253,10582.8%1
December 20252,91182.9%0
January 20262,78786.0%1
February 20262,86986.6%2
March 20262,69993.3%0
April 20262,61594.1%0
May 20262,67895.0%0
June 20262,93895.5%0

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory medicine 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust0.2 mi64797%+1.2 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust22.7 mi94994%-1.4 pp
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust24.6 mi63874%-21.7 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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