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University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 100,816 people were on the University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · East Midlands · ODS code RTG

People waiting (all services)
100,816
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.8%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
2,176
Services reported
18
with people currently waiting

2,176 people (2.2%, roughly 1 in 45) 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 of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics17,67249%60.9%947+3.2 pp
Ophthalmology10,20665%72.2%79+8 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)9,77451%56.8%198-2.5 pp
Gynaecology8,76158%59.6%321+6.8 pp
Dermatology6,05068%69.0%3+6.9 pp
General surgery4,84258%63.2%183-0.4 pp
Gastroenterology4,19975%69.7%113+3.5 pp
Cardiology3,72865%67.9%47-1.7 pp
Neurology3,55054%62.3%22+7.5 pp
Urology3,28268%64.8%59+3.7 pp
Oral surgery2,36472%53.8%28-1.7 pp
Respiratory medicine1,74672%74.1%0-0.9 pp
Rheumatology1,69088%70.4%0+14.8 pp
Plastic surgery45978%59.4%5+7.7 pp
Elderly medicine30592%84.3%0+2.3 pp
Neurosurgery19257%62.0%0+14.4 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery4576%73.6%0-10.1 pp
General medicine367%72.3%0+16.7 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (58% to 61%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (60.9% in May 2026); up 3.4 points over 6 months (57.4% in February 2026); broadly unchanged over 12 months (58.9% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +2.7 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 202558.9%
September 202559.3%
October 202559.5%
November 202559%
December 202558.1%
January 202657.2%
February 202657.4%
March 202661.9%
April 202661%
May 202660.9%
June 202661.4%
July 202660.7%
August 202660.8%

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 of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202598,83258.1%2,139
August 202595,66058.9%1,881
September 202594,82859.3%1,711
October 202595,95459.5%1,683
November 202596,48759.0%1,642
December 202596,82458.1%1,621
January 202697,67857.2%1,924
February 202696,84157.4%1,909
March 202693,27261.9%1,511
April 202694,75861.0%1,526
May 202693,83960.9%1,674
June 202696,37961.4%1,782
July 202699,10860.7%2,039
August 2026100,81660.8%2,176

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

  • 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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