Hospital waiting times
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times
At the end of June 2026, 1,874 people were on the The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (94%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.
NHS trust · London · ODS code RPY
- People waiting (all services)
- 1,874
- End of June 2026
- Under 18 weeks
- 94.1%
- England: 65.8%
- Over 52 weeks
- 0
- Services reported
- 7
- with people currently waiting
No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.
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.
| Service | Waiting | Under 18 weeks | England | Over 52 weeks | 6-month change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oral surgery | 152 | 91% | 55.0% | 0 | -1.3 pp |
| General surgery | 123 | 90% | 63.0% | 0 | -1.1 pp |
| Urology | 72 | 97% | 65.0% | 0 | +6 pp |
| Gastroenterology | 61 | 90% | 69.3% | 0 | +2.9 pp |
| Plastic surgery | 49 | 90% | 59.3% | 0 | +2.8 pp |
| Dermatology | 3 | 100% | 69.0% | 0 | 0 pp |
| Respiratory medicine | 1 | 100% | 74.8% | 0 | 0 pp |
How this has changed
Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (96% to 94%).
Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (94.7% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (94.4% in December 2025).
Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month
Broadly stable · -1.5 pointsPercentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.
View these figures as a table
| Month | Within 18 weeks |
|---|---|
| July 2025 | 95.6% |
| August 2025 | 94.8% |
| September 2025 | 94% |
| October 2025 | 95.5% |
| November 2025 | 95.2% |
| December 2025 | 94.4% |
| January 2026 | 94.1% |
| February 2026 | 94.4% |
| March 2026 | 94.7% |
| April 2026 | 94.8% |
| May 2026 | 94.7% |
| June 2026 | 94.1% |
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
| Month | Waiting | Under 18 weeks | Over 52 weeks |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 2025 | 1,935 | 95.6% | 2 |
| August 2025 | 1,917 | 94.8% | 1 |
| September 2025 | 1,911 | 94.0% | 2 |
| October 2025 | 1,968 | 95.5% | 2 |
| November 2025 | 2,066 | 95.2% | 2 |
| December 2025 | 1,869 | 94.4% | 3 |
| January 2026 | 1,907 | 94.1% | 1 |
| February 2026 | 1,969 | 94.4% | 2 |
| March 2026 | 1,962 | 94.7% | 2 |
| April 2026 | 1,804 | 94.8% | 0 |
| May 2026 | 1,919 | 94.7% | 0 |
| June 2026 | 1,874 | 94.1% | 0 |
Diagnostic tests
Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.
- CT scan353 waiting · 0.3% over 6 wks
- MRI scan290 waiting · 0.0% over 6 wks
- Ultrasound (non-obstetric)147 waiting · 0.7% over 6 wks
- Echocardiogram90 waiting · 2.2% over 6 wks
- Colonoscopy69 waiting · 14.5% over 6 wks
- Gastroscopy64 waiting · 17.2% over 6 wks
- DEXA scan50 waiting · 0.0% over 6 wks
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy13 waiting · 0.0% over 6 wks
- Cystoscopy7 waiting · 28.6% over 6 wks
- Barium enema3 waiting · 0.0% over 6 wks
Nearby NHS trusts
Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · 0.6 mi73,615 waiting · 68%
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · 1.9 mi84,008 waiting · 71%
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · 2.4 mi110,502 waiting · 69%
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · 2.9 mi77,928 waiting · 65%
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust · 3.1 mi8,382 waiting · 73%
Contact details we hold for this organisation
Appointment letters carry the contact route for the team holding the referral. We only list contact details we have checked against the organisation's own published pages, and none are listed here yet.
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.
Related guides on this site
- Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
- How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
- NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
- How to use PALS about a waiting list
Reference article explaining what a Patient Advice and Liaison Service does.
- Your rights while you wait
Reference article on what the 18-week standard is and is not.