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Cardiology waiting times at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,596 people were on the Cardiology at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
3,596
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
79.1%
England: 67.9%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 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 11.2 percentage points better than 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 5.3% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Cardiology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 79.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 79.4% 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
79.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
76.9% then · change to latest +2.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
82.1% then · change to latest -3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
79.4% then · change to latest -0.4 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
68.5% then · change to latest +10.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202679.1%3,596
July 202680.8%3,998
June 202681.8%3,868
May 202676.9%3,914
April 202679.1%3,705
March 202683.9%3,745
February 202682.1%3,314
January 202680.7%3,502
December 202578.8%3,299
November 202582.1%3,439
October 202581.6%3,654
September 202582.5%3,234
August 202579.4%3,303
July 202581.5%3,447
June 202579.9%3,520
May 202575.8%3,832
April 202573.8%4,053
March 202570%4,450
February 202572.2%4,329
January 202572.4%4,268
December 202466%4,443
November 202466.6%4,273
October 202467.6%4,415
September 202465.8%4,269
August 202465.1%4,555
July 202468%4,219
June 202468.4%3,980
May 202466.7%4,516
April 202468.5%4,656
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 cardiology 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 Cardiology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust20.7 mi1,79049%-30 pp
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi1,66969%-10.1 pp
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust24.1 mi24493%+13.5 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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