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The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 29,599 people were on the The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (71%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · Yorkshire and The Humber · ODS code RFR

People waiting (all services)
29,599
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
70.6%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
400
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

400 people (1.4%, roughly 1 in 71) 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 Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics4,43852%60.6%101+4.3 pp
Gynaecology3,79663%61.0%91+7.6 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)2,40173%59.0%76+6.3 pp
Oral surgery2,39844%55.0%70-4 pp
Dermatology2,16791%69.0%0+22.6 pp
Ophthalmology1,99385%73.8%0-5.3 pp
Gastroenterology1,88072%69.3%0+1.7 pp
General surgery1,87858%63.0%49+2.3 pp
Cardiology1,61988%68.2%0+6.6 pp
Urology1,41169%65.0%10 pp
Respiratory medicine88593%74.8%0+15.4 pp
Rheumatology76493%70.8%0+24.2 pp
Elderly medicine11097%83.1%0-2.7 pp
General medicine1894%71.4%0-1.6 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 4.1 percentage points (67% to 71%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (69.3% in March 2026); up 5.4 points over 6 months (65.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.1 points

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

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202566.5%
August 202564.6%
September 202565.1%
October 202564.7%
November 202564.9%
December 202565.2%
January 202666.2%
February 202667.7%
March 202669.3%
April 202669.5%
May 202670.1%
June 202670.6%

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 Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202531,31066.5%599
August 202531,70764.6%647
September 202531,18465.1%599
October 202531,16564.7%584
November 202531,12864.9%544
December 202530,28565.2%476
January 202629,66566.2%496
February 202629,09067.7%444
March 202628,27469.3%334
April 202629,42369.5%355
May 202629,74170.1%396
June 202629,59970.6%400

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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