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Neurology waiting times at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,865 people were on the Neurology at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (85%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust · NHS trust · Neurology across England

People waiting
1,865
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
84.6%
England: 62.3%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 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 22.3 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 2.6% of everyone waiting at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Neurology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Neurology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 84.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 55.8% 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
84.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
80.5% then · change to latest +4.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
63.7% then · change to latest +20.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
55.8% then · change to latest +28.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
65.6% then · change to latest +19 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202684.6%1,865
July 202686.2%1,922
June 202684.5%1,976
May 202680.5%1,873
April 202674.8%2,267
March 202672.3%2,236
February 202663.7%2,699
January 202657.7%3,067
December 202555%3,045
November 202549.9%2,850
October 202552%2,608
September 202555.4%2,623
August 202555.8%2,965
July 202558.9%2,976
June 202559.6%3,005
May 202562.3%3,015
April 202560.1%3,126
March 202561.9%3,010
February 202566.3%2,845
January 202569.1%2,612
December 202473.3%2,460
November 202474.7%2,499
October 202472.9%2,542
September 202472.8%2,598
August 202472.4%2,737
July 202469.7%2,716
June 202465.5%2,805
May 202464.7%2,946
April 202465.6%3,046
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 neurology 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 Neurology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust4.2 mi74093%+8.3 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust6.8 mi1,46648%-36.3 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust9.7 mi1,57549%-35.4 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust12.1 mi4,10951%-34.1 pp
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust14.6 mi3580%-4.6 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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