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Cardiology waiting times at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,939 people were on the Cardiology at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (70%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
3,939
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
70.1%
England: 68.2%
Over 52 weeks
13
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

13 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

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 10.2% of everyone waiting at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 25.2 percentage points (45% to 70%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 7.7 points over 3 months (62.4% in March 2026); up 17.3 points over 6 months (52.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +25.2 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 202544.9%
August 202545.7%
September 202545.3%
October 202548.1%
November 202549.3%
December 202552.8%
January 202653.2%
February 202656.6%
March 202662.4%
April 202665.8%
May 202668.9%
June 202670.1%

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 Cardiology figures at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,39444.9%226
August 20255,10845.7%239
September 20255,10345.3%203
October 20254,96948.1%143
November 20254,94349.3%114
December 20254,75452.8%72
January 20264,73153.2%62
February 20264,44856.6%56
March 20264,31462.4%15
April 20264,14465.8%8
May 20264,07668.9%9
June 20263,93970.1%13

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
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust14.5 mi4,42978%+7.6 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust16.3 mi1,36470%+0.2 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust16.6 mi2,99794%+23.9 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust17.2 mi84677%+6.7 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust18.6 mi8,61276%+6.3 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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