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University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 114,889 people were on the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · East Midlands · ODS code RWE

People waiting (all services)
114,889
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.3%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
2,455
Services reported
18
with people currently waiting

2,455 people (2.1%, roughly 1 in 48) 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 Leicester NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics11,85839%60.9%968+2.7 pp
Gynaecology9,66559%59.6%156-2.1 pp
Ophthalmology8,82576%72.2%10+13.4 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)7,12848%56.8%238+0.2 pp
Oral surgery6,79645%53.8%330+3.5 pp
General surgery6,38767%63.2%96+7.4 pp
Cardiology5,97667%67.9%4+6.4 pp
Gastroenterology4,69860%69.7%139+4.8 pp
Rheumatology3,89152%70.4%34+5.9 pp
Urology3,58784%64.8%3+10.9 pp
Dermatology3,02690%69.0%1+9 pp
Neurology2,96749%62.3%6+7.4 pp
Respiratory medicine2,27882%74.1%0+4.6 pp
Plastic surgery1,23854%59.4%40+1.6 pp
Elderly medicine55481%84.3%0-10.3 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery48775%73.6%3-2 pp
Neurosurgery16049%62.0%2+5.8 pp
General medicine14695%72.3%0+6.9 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.9 percentage points (53% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (59.5% in May 2026); up 4.6 points over 6 months (55.7% in February 2026); up 8.4 points over 12 months (51.9% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +6.9 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 202553.4%
August 202551.9%
September 202551.6%
October 202551.7%
November 202552.7%
December 202552%
January 202651.7%
February 202655.7%
March 202659.1%
April 202658%
May 202659.5%
June 202660.1%
July 202660%
August 202660.3%

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 Leicester NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 2025109,63553.4%3,202
August 2025110,72851.9%3,402
September 2025109,23351.6%3,626
October 2025109,41151.7%3,445
November 2025109,20552.7%3,214
December 2025107,77552.0%2,812
January 2026105,82551.7%2,714
February 2026117,44955.7%2,503
March 2026113,97359.1%2,293
April 2026114,99258.0%2,427
May 2026116,01959.5%2,460
June 2026115,27960.1%2,402
July 2026116,55860.0%2,407
August 2026114,88960.3%2,455

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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