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Somerset NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 53,524 people were on the Somerset NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (65%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South West · ODS code RH5

People waiting (all services)
53,524
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.2%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
1,310
Services reported
17
with people currently waiting

1,310 people (2.4%, roughly 1 in 42) 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 Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics9,04565%60.6%333+5.4 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)4,84158%59.0%190+7.7 pp
Gynaecology3,91056%61.0%73+1.1 pp
Oral surgery3,53545%55.0%183-7.3 pp
Dermatology3,42078%69.0%33+3.5 pp
Ophthalmology3,02979%73.8%19+8.9 pp
Urology2,94052%65.0%150-2.5 pp
General surgery2,73061%63.0%44-10 pp
Cardiology2,70668%68.2%8+4.2 pp
Gastroenterology2,03172%69.3%4+1 pp
Respiratory medicine1,53286%74.8%1+10.1 pp
Neurology1,13467%61.7%5+10.8 pp
Rheumatology88862%70.8%6-2 pp
Elderly medicine67977%83.1%2+0.7 pp
Plastic surgery15794%59.3%0+17.2 pp
General medicine6279%71.4%0+5.1 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery1688%72.8%0+2.5 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (64% to 65%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (65.4% in March 2026); up 2.8 points over 6 months (62.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +1.3 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 202563.9%
August 202562.2%
September 202562.5%
October 202562.5%
November 202562.3%
December 202562.4%
January 202661.8%
February 202663.1%
March 202665.4%
April 202665.8%
May 202665.6%
June 202665.2%

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 Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202557,90563.9%1,749
August 202557,71562.2%1,826
September 202557,93562.5%1,740
October 202558,06862.5%1,575
November 202556,65962.3%1,313
December 202553,78162.4%1,290
January 202653,14361.8%1,195
February 202652,98563.1%1,111
March 202652,30265.4%1,028
April 202653,89165.8%1,135
May 202654,01165.6%1,304
June 202653,52465.2%1,310

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

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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