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University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 66,684 people were on the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (59%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · West Midlands · ODS code RKB

People waiting (all services)
66,684
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
58.8%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
2,173
Services reported
18
with people currently waiting

2,173 people (3.3%, roughly 1 in 30) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)8,44839%56.8%410-3.5 pp
General surgery7,81461%63.2%3560 pp
Ophthalmology6,58350%72.2%250-3 pp
Gynaecology6,10745%59.6%281-9.2 pp
Orthopaedics5,00862%60.9%167+10.8 pp
Neurosurgery4,39454%62.0%155+6.5 pp
Urology3,39455%64.8%191+6.8 pp
Dermatology3,30787%69.0%0+15.8 pp
Neurology3,24265%62.3%30+9.5 pp
Oral surgery3,22361%53.8%54-5.7 pp
Respiratory medicine2,46872%74.1%0+1.3 pp
Cardiology1,97674%67.9%0+3.3 pp
Gastroenterology1,22876%69.7%3-3.9 pp
Rheumatology62497%70.4%0+2 pp
Plastic surgery55663%59.4%2+2.2 pp
General medicine46197%72.3%0+19.7 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery31686%73.6%0+0.8 pp
Elderly medicine12898%84.3%0+3.8 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (58% to 59%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (58.0% in May 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (57.8% in February 2026); broadly unchanged over 12 months (58.5% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +0.7 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202558.1%
August 202558.5%
September 202558.9%
October 202558.1%
November 202556.3%
December 202555.7%
January 202655.9%
February 202657.8%
March 202659.2%
April 202658.4%
May 202658%
June 202657.9%
July 202658.3%
August 202658.8%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202576,24358.1%1,679
August 202575,49058.5%1,710
September 202574,62458.9%1,894
October 202573,62558.1%2,026
November 202571,24656.3%2,106
December 202569,82855.7%1,816
January 202669,79755.9%1,950
February 202670,90857.8%1,839
March 202671,04959.2%1,623
April 202673,27058.4%1,729
May 202673,77158.0%2,219
June 202672,19357.9%2,279
July 202668,68358.3%2,570
August 202666,68458.8%2,173

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

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  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
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  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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