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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,172 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
1,172
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
73.6%
England: 74.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 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 broadly in line with the England picture 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 2.3% of everyone waiting at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Respiratory medicine at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 73.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 66.5% 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
73.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
75% then · change to latest -1.4 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
70.8% then · change to latest +2.8 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
66.5% then · change to latest +7.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
70.1% then · change to latest +3.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202673.6%1,172
July 202673.7%1,147
June 202673.7%1,114
May 202675%1,077
April 202673.2%1,040
March 202674.8%1,053
February 202670.8%1,096
January 202667.2%1,099
December 202564.3%1,142
November 202562%1,117
October 202563%1,158
September 202562.6%1,207
August 202566.5%1,324
July 202568%1,270
June 202567.2%1,222
May 202565.7%1,249
April 202562.6%1,354
March 202566.2%1,328
February 202569.4%1,277
January 202576.6%1,203
December 202479.2%1,157
November 202482%1,026
October 202480.3%964
September 202476.4%1,061
August 202475.1%1,010
July 202471.8%1,033
June 202471.4%1,092
May 202471.4%1,215
April 202470.1%1,240
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 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
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust9 mi3990%+16.1 pp
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust11.2 mi1,16276%+1.9 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust12 mi99198%+24.5 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.3 mi3,37364%-9.3 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust14.5 mi82967%-6.8 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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