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Urology waiting times at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,067 people were on the Urology at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (73%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Urology across England

People waiting
2,067
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
72.7%
England: 64.8%
Over 52 weeks
13
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

13 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.9 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 6.2% of everyone waiting at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Urology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 72.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 63.2% 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
72.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
68.4% then · change to latest +4.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
65.3% then · change to latest +7.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
63.2% then · change to latest +9.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
72.9% then · change to latest -0.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202672.7%2,067
July 202672.3%2,034
June 202670.7%2,019
May 202668.4%2,132
April 202667.2%2,354
March 202667.3%2,513
February 202665.3%2,530
January 202663.7%2,653
December 202563.2%2,541
November 202564.4%2,476
October 202562.6%2,484
September 202562.1%2,627
August 202563.2%2,608
July 202564%2,579
June 202565.9%2,498
May 202566.1%2,453
April 202565.7%2,549
March 202566.9%2,557
February 202568.4%2,453
January 202571.6%2,482
December 202472.6%2,432
November 202470%2,484
October 202469%2,566
September 202468.9%2,491
August 202469.2%2,458
July 202470.6%2,446
June 202470.2%2,368
May 202472.7%2,398
April 202472.9%2,333
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 urology 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 Urology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust9.7 mi1,67061%-11.7 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust13.3 mi3,05966%-6.3 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust19.4 mi3,28268%-5 pp
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust19.8 mi1,33668%-5 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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