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The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 32,558 people were on the The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (64%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · London · ODS code RAS

People waiting (all services)
32,558
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.9%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
96
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

96 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 The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics5,99360%60.9%31+1.7 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,65752%56.8%49+13.5 pp
Ophthalmology2,82975%72.2%0-1.4 pp
Oral surgery2,18551%53.8%0-6.4 pp
Cardiology1,94546%67.9%2-10.5 pp
Gynaecology1,59792%59.6%0-5.3 pp
Urology1,58352%64.8%1-10.5 pp
General surgery1,37159%63.2%2+2.7 pp
Dermatology1,15487%69.0%0+1.2 pp
Gastroenterology1,02775%69.7%1+11.6 pp
Respiratory medicine79373%74.1%0-1.2 pp
Rheumatology42377%70.4%0+11.2 pp
Neurology39884%62.3%0+18.9 pp
Elderly medicine9388%84.3%0+6.4 pp
Plastic surgery2756%59.4%0-21.4 pp
General medicine333%72.3%0-16.7 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 11.2 percentage points (53% to 64%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (64.0% in May 2026); up 2.7 points over 6 months (61.2% in February 2026); up 8.9 points over 12 months (55.0% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +11.2 points

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

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202552.7%
August 202555%
September 202559.6%
October 202559.6%
November 202558.8%
December 202559.2%
January 202660.3%
February 202661.2%
March 202663.7%
April 202662.7%
May 202664%
June 202664.2%
July 202663.8%
August 202663.9%

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 all-services figures for The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202532,16152.7%686
August 202534,62155.0%965
September 202536,92359.6%541
October 202535,76259.6%528
November 202535,06258.8%552
December 202534,34859.2%413
January 202633,46160.3%275
February 202633,39961.2%203
March 202632,99363.7%101
April 202633,47462.7%111
May 202633,23364.0%143
June 202633,27764.2%113
July 202632,94263.8%108
August 202632,55863.9%96

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.

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

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  • 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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