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Elderly medicine waiting times at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 763 people were on the Elderly medicine at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (81%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
763
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
81.3%
England: 83.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 1.1% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 5.5 percentage points (87% to 81%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (80.3% in March 2026); up 4 points over 6 months (77.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -5.5 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 202586.8%
August 202580.9%
September 202575.5%
October 202579.4%
November 202573.4%
December 202577.3%
January 202675%
February 202667.6%
March 202680.3%
April 202684%
May 202687.7%
June 202681.3%

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 Elderly medicine figures at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202558586.8%0
August 202565380.9%0
September 202560175.5%0
October 202542379.4%1
November 202543673.4%0
December 202549077.3%0
January 202651575.0%3
February 202658467.6%4
March 202650780.3%0
April 202673684.0%0
May 202680887.7%0
June 202676381.3%0

Other NHS trusts offering elderly 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 Elderly medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust20.7 mi7070%-11.3 pp
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi27768%-13 pp
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust24.1 mi36100%+18.7 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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