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Cardiology waiting times at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,124 people were on the Cardiology at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
3,124
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
74.2%
England: 68.2%
Over 52 weeks
26
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

26 people (0.8%, roughly 1 in 125) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6 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 3.2% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 9.5 percentage points (65% to 74%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 5.4 points over 3 months (79.6% in March 2026); up 10.8 points over 6 months (63.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.5 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 202564.7%
August 202563.9%
September 202565.8%
October 202566.7%
November 202564.7%
December 202563.4%
January 202662.5%
February 202666.9%
March 202679.6%
April 202678.2%
May 202676.7%
June 202674.2%

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 Cardiology figures at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,85464.7%50
August 20253,42063.9%68
September 20253,47165.8%38
October 20253,51466.7%17
November 20253,63364.7%15
December 20253,66963.4%19
January 20263,77262.5%21
February 20263,50166.9%29
March 20262,58379.6%21
April 20262,79978.2%21
May 20262,88576.7%24
June 20263,12474.2%26

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
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust13.8 mi1,24385%+11 pp
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust19.4 mi1,96064%-10.5 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23 mi1,07368%-6.1 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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