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Cardiology waiting times at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,740 people were on the Cardiology at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (84%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
1,740
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
84.0%
England: 67.9%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

This hospital's published position is 16.1 percentage points better than 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 5.8% of everyone waiting at The Rotherham 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 improved

Published 18-week performance for Cardiology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 84% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 70.5% 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
84%
3 months earlier · May 2026
86.7% then · change to latest -2.7 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
88.5% then · change to latest -4.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
70.5% then · change to latest +13.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
60.9% then · change to latest +23.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202684%1,740
July 202683%1,612
June 202687.9%1,619
May 202686.7%1,596
April 202686.1%1,693
March 202689.1%1,663
February 202688.5%1,630
January 202684.7%1,721
December 202581.3%1,656
November 202574.5%1,844
October 202572.7%1,844
September 202572.4%1,933
August 202570.5%2,140
July 202573.5%2,096
June 202576%2,012
May 202576.5%1,971
April 202576.8%2,002
March 202574.2%1,991
February 202573.7%1,846
January 202577.7%1,894
December 202475.5%1,865
November 202473.2%1,843
October 202472%1,956
September 202470.7%2,006
August 202469.4%1,998
July 202468%1,829
June 202463.9%1,677
May 202462.7%1,619
April 202460.9%1,595
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
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust11.9 mi68997%+12.5 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust12.5 mi81472%-11.7 pp
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi2,32182%-1.9 pp
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust19.8 mi2,08661%-23.2 pp
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust20.1 mi85892%+8.3 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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