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University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 67,378 people were on the University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South West · ODS code R0D

People waiting (all services)
67,378
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
67.6%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
672
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

672 people (1.0%, roughly 1 in 100) 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 Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics8,04855%60.6%209+8.4 pp
Gynaecology6,86953%61.0%205+4.8 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)6,04960%59.0%5+2.3 pp
Ophthalmology5,13573%73.8%2+6.6 pp
Gastroenterology5,07083%69.3%1+1.3 pp
Dermatology4,54468%69.0%39+8.9 pp
Cardiology3,86882%68.2%0+3.1 pp
Oral surgery3,09455%55.0%12+4.4 pp
Urology2,57469%65.0%58+2.1 pp
Neurology1,81378%61.7%0+3.5 pp
Respiratory medicine1,55566%74.8%0+13.9 pp
Rheumatology1,23788%70.8%0+7.7 pp
General surgery1,10694%63.0%7+4.6 pp
Elderly medicine76381%83.1%0+3.9 pp
General medicine205100%71.4%0-0.5 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 4.2 percentage points (63% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (67.5% in March 2026); up 5.7 points over 6 months (61.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.2 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 202563.4%
August 202563.3%
September 202563.3%
October 202564.1%
November 202563.6%
December 202561.9%
January 202663.2%
February 202663.8%
March 202667.5%
April 202666.5%
May 202666.9%
June 202667.6%

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 all-services figures for University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202562,20363.4%1,959
August 202563,17263.3%1,832
September 202562,70663.3%1,657
October 202565,11164.1%1,639
November 202562,98463.6%1,713
December 202563,33561.9%1,674
January 202665,96063.2%1,529
February 202666,13463.8%1,254
March 202666,51667.5%631
April 202667,80066.5%619
May 202667,49766.9%672
June 202667,37867.6%672

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.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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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