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Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of March 2026, 33,478 people were on the Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South West · ODS code RA9

People waiting (all services)
33,478
End of March 2026
Under 18 weeks
66.4%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
596
Services reported
0
with people currently waiting

596 people (1.8%, roughly 1 in 56) 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 Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and March 2026 the share of people waiting at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 3.3 percentage points (70% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (67.5% in December 2025); down 4 points over 6 months (70.4% in September 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -3.3 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 9 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202569.7%
August 202569.5%
September 202570.4%
October 202569.3%
November 202568.7%
December 202567.5%
January 202667%
February 202666.8%
March 202666.4%

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 Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202532,96469.7%587
August 202532,12369.5%614
September 202532,11570.4%623
October 202531,78369.3%623
November 202531,98968.7%605
December 202532,82467.5%654
January 202633,05667.0%589
February 202633,60566.8%595
March 202633,47866.4%596

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

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.

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