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Neurosurgery waiting times at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,394 people were on the Neurosurgery at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust · NHS trust · Neurosurgery across England

People waiting
4,394
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
53.7%
England: 62%
Over 52 weeks
155
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

155 people (3.5%, roughly 1 in 29) 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 6.6% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS 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): 53.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 53.8% 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
53.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
43.7% then · change to latest +10 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
47.2% then · change to latest +6.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
53.8% then · change to latest -0.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
45% then · change to latest +8.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202653.7%4,394
July 202651.6%4,850
June 202648.2%5,328
May 202643.7%5,528
April 202645.8%5,672
March 202647%5,476
February 202647.2%3,832
January 202646.7%3,783
December 202547.8%3,681
November 202550.2%3,640
October 202552.7%3,563
September 202552.3%3,587
August 202553.8%3,473
July 202551%3,375
June 202543.8%3,336
May 202540.2%3,386
April 202539.5%3,711
March 202544.2%3,921
February 202545.4%3,910
January 202548.9%3,715
December 202450.6%3,698
November 202450.5%3,911
October 202450.7%4,067
September 202449.7%4,072
August 202446.6%3,947
July 202445.5%3,873
June 202444.4%3,654
May 202447%3,548
April 202445%3,543
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 of Leicester NHS Trust19.1 mi16049%-4.9 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust21.3 mi1,99456%+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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