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University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 80,143 people were on the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · London · ODS code RRV

People waiting (all services)
80,143
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.5%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
850
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

850 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) 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 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)7,62161%56.8%52+5.2 pp
Oral surgery7,43570%53.8%3+1.4 pp
Gynaecology6,30153%59.6%453+4.5 pp
Neurology5,55870%62.3%0+3.3 pp
General medicine5,53054%72.3%1+3.3 pp
Urology5,13158%64.8%102+4.5 pp
Gastroenterology3,93280%69.7%0+2.9 pp
Neurosurgery3,57862%62.0%52+4.5 pp
Orthopaedics3,44974%60.9%1+0.2 pp
Dermatology2,80865%69.0%23+2.4 pp
Rheumatology82764%70.4%14+3 pp
Cardiology80672%67.9%0+3.5 pp
Respiratory medicine74188%74.1%0-1.5 pp
General surgery7478%63.2%0+14.5 pp
Elderly medicine6292%84.3%0-8.1 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.4 percentage points (59% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (63.9% in May 2026); up 3.7 points over 6 months (61.8% in February 2026); up 7.6 points over 12 months (57.9% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +6.4 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 202559.1%
August 202557.9%
September 202558.6%
October 202558.2%
November 202558.9%
December 202559.2%
January 202660.4%
February 202661.8%
March 202663.2%
April 202662.5%
May 202663.9%
June 202665%
July 202665.3%
August 202665.5%

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 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202573,45859.1%1,352
August 202573,75857.9%1,336
September 202572,86958.6%1,411
October 202572,08658.2%1,451
November 202573,04958.9%1,241
December 202574,72659.2%1,132
January 202676,07360.4%1,117
February 202675,70161.8%1,051
March 202674,66863.2%1,123
April 202677,04762.5%1,340
May 202677,64963.9%1,229
June 202677,92865.0%890
July 202678,84165.3%780
August 202680,14365.5%850

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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