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The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 38,558 people were on the The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · East of England · ODS code RQW

People waiting (all services)
38,558
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.7%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
433
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

433 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) 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 Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics5,37456%60.6%40+9.7 pp
Cardiology3,93970%68.2%13+17.3 pp
General surgery3,85470%63.0%24+6.2 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,26767%59.0%102+39.3 pp
Gynaecology3,17674%61.0%54+18.1 pp
Ophthalmology2,94971%73.8%40-2.1 pp
Gastroenterology2,88462%69.3%24+2.9 pp
Urology2,79869%65.0%9+3.6 pp
Dermatology1,77492%69.0%2+12.1 pp
Oral surgery1,70449%55.0%50+3 pp
Rheumatology1,25465%70.8%4+15.4 pp
Neurology1,16078%61.7%2+14.8 pp
Respiratory medicine86277%74.8%0+14.8 pp
General medicine37100%71.4%00 pp
Elderly medicine2186%83.1%0+25.1 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 16.7 percentage points (52% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.6 points over 3 months (64.1% in March 2026); up 12.4 points over 6 months (56.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +16.7 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202552%
August 202552.8%
September 202554.1%
October 202555.5%
November 202556.1%
December 202556.3%
January 202656%
February 202657.8%
March 202664.1%
April 202665.3%
May 202666.8%
June 202668.7%

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 The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202546,78852.0%2,402
August 202544,36752.8%2,449
September 202543,44054.1%2,157
October 202542,19455.5%1,947
November 202541,15556.1%1,931
December 202540,00656.3%1,650
January 202640,16556.0%1,659
February 202638,73457.8%1,282
March 202639,76264.1%569
April 202638,61165.3%454
May 202638,80266.8%405
June 202638,55868.7%433

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

  • 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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