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Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 39,606 people were on the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (70%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South West · ODS code RD1

People waiting (all services)
39,606
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
70.4%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
133
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

133 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) 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 United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
General surgery3,77360%63.0%32+1.8 pp
Cardiology3,77069%68.2%7+8.7 pp
Oral surgery3,23356%55.0%8+4.2 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)2,88454%59.0%16+2.7 pp
Ophthalmology2,75488%73.8%0+6.5 pp
Gynaecology2,67980%61.0%3+14.5 pp
Dermatology2,38381%69.0%2+11.2 pp
Gastroenterology2,24386%69.3%2+21.7 pp
Orthopaedics2,18365%60.6%11+9.3 pp
Urology1,87972%65.0%8+7.8 pp
Neurology1,62448%61.7%1+0.3 pp
Rheumatology1,41871%70.8%0+12.9 pp
Respiratory medicine54690%74.8%0-3.9 pp
Elderly medicine16596%83.1%0+1.2 pp
General medicine34100%71.4%00 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 12.7 percentage points (58% to 70%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (69.1% in March 2026); up 7.8 points over 6 months (62.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +12.7 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202557.7%
August 202558.2%
September 202560.1%
October 202560.7%
November 202563%
December 202562.6%
January 202663.1%
February 202666.2%
March 202669.1%
April 202670.3%
May 202671.1%
June 202670.4%

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 United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202541,04357.7%939
August 202539,34958.2%761
September 202538,54460.1%565
October 202538,87560.7%644
November 202538,61163.0%545
December 202540,13562.6%465
January 202640,15763.1%402
February 202640,32366.2%326
March 202639,10569.1%215
April 202639,23770.3%183
May 202640,06171.1%155
June 202639,60670.4%133

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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