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General medicine waiting times at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,973 people were on the General medicine at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General medicine across England

People waiting
5,973
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.2%
England: 71.4%
Over 52 weeks
35
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

35 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 19.2 percentage points behind 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 7.7% of everyone waiting at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 8.4 percentage points (61% to 52%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (51.8% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (51.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -8.4 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202560.6%
August 202558.2%
September 202557.9%
October 202555.3%
November 202552.9%
December 202551.2%
January 202649.1%
February 202650.7%
March 202651.8%
April 202649.1%
May 202650.3%
June 202652.2%

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 General medicine figures at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,99360.6%0
August 20254,08558.2%1
September 20254,08957.9%1
October 20254,26055.3%3
November 20254,37152.9%9
December 20254,49051.2%15
January 20264,60249.1%33
February 20265,22550.7%60
March 20265,53051.8%146
April 20265,92049.1%229
May 20266,07650.3%192
June 20265,97352.2%35

Other NHS trusts offering general medicine 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 General medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust1.7 mi11470%+18 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.1 mi35089%+36.4 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust2.2 mi30567%+14.7 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi3589%+36.4 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust3.5 mi5754%+2.2 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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