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The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 38,312 people were on the The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · West Midlands · ODS code RXW

People waiting (all services)
38,312
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.2%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
0
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

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

Services at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
General surgery4,90574%63.2%0+10.4 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)4,52360%56.8%0+1.4 pp
Gynaecology4,29463%59.6%0+5.6 pp
Dermatology3,92172%69.0%0+9.7 pp
Ophthalmology3,91973%72.2%0+1 pp
Cardiology3,15375%67.9%0+6.5 pp
Orthopaedics2,33346%60.9%0-2.9 pp
Oral surgery2,33044%53.8%0-17.7 pp
Urology2,15466%64.8%0+4.5 pp
Gastroenterology1,94586%69.7%0+14.4 pp
Respiratory medicine1,81070%74.1%0+9.4 pp
General medicine1,18189%72.3%0+23.3 pp
Elderly medicine219100%84.3%0+2 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery8086%73.6%0-7.3 pp
Rheumatology4100%70.4%0—
Neurology2100%62.3%0+100 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 11.8 percentage points (56% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (69.9% in May 2026); up 5.1 points over 6 months (63.1% in February 2026); up 9.4 points over 12 months (58.8% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +11.8 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 202556.4%
August 202558.8%
September 202562.3%
October 202564%
November 202565.5%
December 202564.1%
January 202662.9%
February 202663.1%
March 202668.9%
April 202669.1%
May 202669.9%
June 202669.7%
July 202667.9%
August 202668.2%

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 Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202534,74256.4%444
August 202532,67058.8%305
September 202531,65262.3%125
October 202532,26364.0%84
November 202533,62165.5%68
December 202532,79064.1%20
January 202633,63762.9%31
February 202633,35963.1%47
March 202634,27568.9%0
April 202635,08469.1%0
May 202636,45669.9%0
June 202637,23669.7%0
July 202637,29167.9%0
August 202638,31268.2%0

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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