NHS Wait Helper

Hospital service waiting times

Respiratory medicine waiting times at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 489 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (92%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
489
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
92.4%
England: 74.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 18.3 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 1.1% of everyone waiting at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 10.8 percentage points (82% to 92%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (93.4% in May 2026); down 5.9 points over 6 months (98.3% in February 2026); up 10.8 points over 12 months (81.6% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +10.8 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202581.6%
August 202581.6%
September 202583.6%
October 202593.1%
November 202596.4%
December 202593.4%
January 202697.2%
February 202698.3%
March 202698.8%
April 202696.1%
May 202693.4%
June 202689.6%
July 202690.8%
August 202692.4%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Respiratory medicine figures at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202554381.6%0
August 202546281.6%0
September 202545183.6%0
October 202543793.1%0
November 202541296.4%0
December 202548893.4%0
January 202652897.2%0
February 202652798.3%0
March 202649098.8%0
April 202651096.1%0
May 202654593.4%0
June 202654689.6%0
July 202656590.8%0
August 202648992.4%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
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust9.9 mi2,05281%-11.1 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.

Related guides on this site

Related pages

All hospitals