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United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 69,989 people were on the United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · East Midlands · ODS code RWD

People waiting (all services)
69,989
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.0%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
1,089
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

1,089 people (1.6%, roughly 1 in 63) 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 United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)9,89544%56.8%96-4.5 pp
Gynaecology6,88949%59.6%271-1.2 pp
Dermatology5,94757%69.0%40+12 pp
Orthopaedics5,93466%60.9%52+13.2 pp
Ophthalmology5,89371%72.2%0+1.6 pp
Gastroenterology5,19765%69.7%100+12 pp
General surgery4,37983%63.2%14+17.4 pp
Urology3,36177%64.8%6+14.5 pp
Oral surgery2,96248%53.8%142+0.4 pp
Neurology2,50977%62.3%1+33.2 pp
Respiratory medicine1,95881%74.1%48+27.9 pp
Rheumatology1,62049%70.4%10-1.4 pp
Cardiology1,37590%67.9%0+10.4 pp
General medicine41046%72.3%7-33.7 pp
Elderly medicine40668%84.3%0-1.6 pp
Neurosurgery1100%62.0%0—

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 8.5 percentage points (55% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (61.2% in May 2026); up 6.7 points over 6 months (56.3% in February 2026); up 9.4 points over 12 months (53.6% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +8.5 points

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

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202554.5%
August 202553.6%
September 202554.5%
October 202553.7%
November 202553.7%
December 202554.1%
January 202654.1%
February 202656.3%
March 202660.8%
April 202660.6%
May 202661.2%
June 202661.9%
July 202662.3%
August 202663%

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 United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202569,76354.5%1,882
August 202569,63053.6%2,012
September 202568,72454.5%2,046
October 202568,81053.7%2,159
November 202567,47453.7%1,487
December 202566,86654.1%678
January 202667,36654.1%510
February 202669,05456.3%464
March 202667,75360.8%426
April 202669,07960.6%624
May 202669,13161.2%751
June 202670,21161.9%1,113
July 202669,78662.3%1,064
August 202669,98963.0%1,089

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.

  • Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust · 1.7 mi13 waiting · 92%

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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