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The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 72,008 people were on the The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · West Midlands · ODS code RL4

People waiting (all services)
72,008
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.1%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
1,214
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

1,214 people (1.7%, roughly 1 in 59) 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 Wolverhampton NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology9,47161%73.8%139-0.4 pp
Orthopaedics6,62568%60.6%63+5.3 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)6,49456%59.0%144+21.2 pp
Urology6,26553%65.0%207+10.2 pp
Gynaecology5,89056%61.0%179+8.7 pp
Cardiology5,65560%68.2%85+10.9 pp
Oral surgery4,71243%55.0%311+15.1 pp
Gastroenterology3,88764%69.3%3+3.5 pp
Neurology1,97685%61.7%0+29.5 pp
Respiratory medicine1,78589%74.8%0+3 pp
Rheumatology1,27078%70.8%0+4.2 pp
Dermatology1,16576%69.0%0+0.8 pp
General surgery99953%63.0%32+22.4 pp
Plastic surgery12465%59.3%1-11 pp
Elderly medicine9496%83.1%0-0.5 pp
General medicine20%71.4%0-100 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.9 percentage points (55% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (60.6% in March 2026); up 8 points over 6 months (54.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.9 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 202555.2%
August 202554.7%
September 202555%
October 202554.8%
November 202555%
December 202554.1%
January 202656.2%
February 202657.1%
March 202660.6%
April 202660.2%
May 202660.4%
June 202662.1%

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 all-services figures for The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202578,67355.2%2,202
August 202577,36854.7%1,883
September 202575,27055.0%1,838
October 202576,87154.8%1,925
November 202576,80355.0%2,110
December 202575,76354.1%2,341
January 202679,01956.2%2,110
February 202677,74157.1%2,025
March 202672,44360.6%1,642
April 202673,77660.2%1,903
May 202673,16560.4%1,809
June 202672,00862.1%1,214

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.

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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