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Cardiothoracic surgery waiting times at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 511 people were on the Cardiothoracic surgery at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiothoracic surgery across England

People waiting
511
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.7%
England: 72.8%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.9 percentage points better than 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 0.8% of everyone waiting at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 9.6 percentage points (69% to 79%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (79.0% in March 2026); up 3.4 points over 6 months (75.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.6 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 202569.1%
August 202570.6%
September 202573.4%
October 202576.1%
November 202576.8%
December 202575.3%
January 202675.4%
February 202676.7%
March 202679%
April 202680.3%
May 202679.3%
June 202678.7%

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 Cardiothoracic surgery figures at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202564869.1%8
August 202555870.6%3
September 202556373.4%5
October 202559876.1%0
November 202559176.8%1
December 202562875.3%3
January 202659075.4%1
February 202658476.7%2
March 202652479.0%2
April 202650280.3%0
May 202653279.3%0
June 202651178.7%2

Other NHS trusts offering cardiothoracic surgery within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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