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Cardiology waiting times at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,945 people were on the Cardiology at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (46%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
1,945
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
45.9%
England: 67.9%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 22 percentage points behind 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% of everyone waiting at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Cardiology at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 45.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 53.2% 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
45.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
49.6% then · change to latest -3.7 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
56.4% then · change to latest -10.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
53.2% then · change to latest -7.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
63.4% then · change to latest -17.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202645.9%1,945
July 202646%2,142
June 202647.5%2,180
May 202649.6%2,240
April 202651.1%2,417
March 202654.3%2,404
February 202656.4%2,458
January 202656.2%2,446
December 202554.5%2,458
November 202554.7%2,384
October 202554%2,363
September 202556%2,254
August 202553.2%2,027
July 202550.8%1,673
June 202555.7%1,530
May 202553.7%1,290
April 202556.3%1,170
March 202557.9%1,272
February 202557%1,301
January 202555.6%1,325
December 202461.8%1,245
November 202461.2%1,330
October 202463.9%1,267
September 202463.6%1,232
August 202461.3%1,349
July 202463%1,193
June 202460.2%1,267
May 202466.5%1,272
April 202463.4%1,258
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 cardiology 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 Cardiology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6.9 mi4,80467%+21.4 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust8.8 mi4,56478%+31.7 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.6 mi2,40465%+18.8 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust10.9 mi1,80768%+22.3 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust11.7 mi2,76663%+17 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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