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Elderly medicine waiting times at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 290 people were on the Elderly medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (90%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
290
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
90.3%
England: 83.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 7.2 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; 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 0.3% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Birmingham 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 4.4 percentage points (95% to 90%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (88.8% in March 2026); down 2.8 points over 6 months (93.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4.4 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 202594.7%
August 202593.5%
September 202595.9%
October 202595.3%
November 202595.2%
December 202593.1%
January 202692.8%
February 202691.4%
March 202688.8%
April 202688.3%
May 202688.2%
June 202690.3%

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 Elderly medicine figures at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202520794.7%0
August 202526193.5%0
September 202524495.9%0
October 202523695.3%0
November 202525195.2%0
December 202526293.1%0
January 202629392.8%0
February 202630291.4%0
March 202632988.8%0
April 202632688.3%0
May 202628788.2%0
June 202629090.3%0

Other NHS trusts offering elderly 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 Elderly medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust2.7 mi2696%+5.8 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust8.1 mi19491%+0.9 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust9.3 mi16497%+6.6 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust12.1 mi9496%+5.4 pp
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust18.8 mi18797%+6.5 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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