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Neurosurgery waiting times at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,994 people were on the Neurosurgery at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Neurosurgery across England

People waiting
1,994
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.7%
England: 62%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 6.3 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 2.1% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Neurosurgery, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Neurosurgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 55.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 55% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
55.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
63.5% then · change to latest -7.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
64% then · change to latest -8.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
55% then · change to latest +0.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
62% then · change to latest -6.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202655.7%1,994
July 202656%1,993
June 202660%1,937
May 202663.5%1,888
April 202664.7%1,833
March 202666.8%1,757
February 202664%1,808
January 202662.7%1,824
December 202562.7%1,862
November 202562.6%1,788
October 202560%1,757
September 202560.2%1,766
August 202555%1,745
July 202552.4%1,785
June 202553.1%1,766
May 202555.1%1,805
April 202555.8%1,824
March 202558%1,945
February 202559%1,971
January 202558.2%1,983
December 202458.6%2,076
November 202457.4%2,063
October 202457.5%2,037
September 202462.5%2,057
August 202463.6%2,011
July 202464.6%1,980
June 202463.7%1,819
May 202461.2%1,770
April 202462%1,685
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering neurosurgery 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 Neurosurgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust21.3 mi4,39454%-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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