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General medicine waiting times at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 322 people were on the General medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (91%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
322
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
91.3%
England: 71.4%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
6 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 19.9 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; 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 7.9 percentage points (99% to 91%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.3 points over 3 months (94.6% in March 2026); down 5.6 points over 6 months (96.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -7.9 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 202599.2%
August 202599.3%
September 202597.8%
October 202589.8%
November 202597.4%
December 202596.9%
January 202695.6%
February 202694.1%
March 202694.6%
April 202689.8%
May 202688.9%
June 202691.3%

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 General medicine figures at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202512999.2%0
August 202514999.3%0
September 202522697.8%0
October 202526489.8%0
November 202527097.4%0
December 202532396.9%0
January 202632195.6%0
February 202635394.1%0
March 202633394.6%0
April 202630389.8%0
May 202627988.9%0
June 202632291.3%0

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
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi22678%-13.4 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust12.1 mi20%-91.3 pp
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust18.8 mi289100%+8.7 pp
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust20 mi26676%-15 pp
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust20.6 mi1889%-2.4 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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