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Respiratory medicine waiting times at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,941 people were on the Respiratory medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (67%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,941
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
66.5%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.0%) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.3 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 3.2% 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 improved by 14.1 percentage points (52% to 67%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 11.6 points over 3 months (78.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (68.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +14.1 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 202552.4%
August 202556.5%
September 202562.7%
October 202566.6%
November 202566.2%
December 202568.2%
January 202669.6%
February 202671.5%
March 202678.1%
April 202668.8%
May 202669.1%
June 202666.5%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,99852.4%112
August 20253,48656.5%56
September 20253,35262.7%17
October 20253,21166.6%15
November 20252,99366.2%26
December 20253,06668.2%17
January 20263,05669.6%3
February 20262,82271.5%1
March 20262,82178.1%1
April 20262,68268.8%1
May 20262,93469.1%0
June 20262,94166.5%1

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust2.7 mi1,86487%+20.6 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust8.1 mi1,02188%+21.5 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust9.3 mi67296%+29.5 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust12.1 mi1,78589%+22.8 pp
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust18.8 mi1,12247%-19.8 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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