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The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 1,681 people were on the The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (93%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · London · ODS code RPY

People waiting (all services)
1,681
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
92.8%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
1
Services reported
7
with people currently waiting

1 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) 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 Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
General surgery14888%63.2%0-5.7 pp
Oral surgery10282%53.8%0-10.2 pp
Urology5198%64.8%0+0.7 pp
Plastic surgery5082%59.4%1-0.5 pp
Gastroenterology4689%69.7%0-3.5 pp
Dermatology450%69.0%0-50 pp
Respiratory medicine1100%74.1%00 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (96% to 93%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (94.7% in May 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (94.4% in February 2026); down 2 points over 12 months (94.8% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · -2.8 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202595.6%
August 202594.8%
September 202594%
October 202595.5%
November 202595.2%
December 202594.4%
January 202694.1%
February 202694.4%
March 202694.7%
April 202694.8%
May 202694.7%
June 202694.1%
July 202693.3%
August 202692.8%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,93595.6%2
August 20251,91794.8%1
September 20251,91194.0%2
October 20251,96895.5%2
November 20252,06695.2%2
December 20251,86994.4%3
January 20261,90794.1%1
February 20261,96994.4%2
March 20261,96294.7%2
April 20261,80494.8%0
May 20261,91994.7%0
June 20261,87494.1%0
July 20261,71993.3%0
August 20261,68192.8%1

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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