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Elderly medicine waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 554 people were on the Elderly medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (81%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
554
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
80.5%
England: 84.3%
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 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 0.5% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Elderly medicine at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 80.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 86% 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
80.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
83.4% then · change to latest -2.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
90.8% then · change to latest -10.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
86% then · change to latest -5.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
83.9% then · change to latest -3.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202680.5%554
July 202680.3%542
June 202683.8%573
May 202683.4%554
April 202685.3%593
March 202688.6%511
February 202690.8%457
January 202691.6%380
December 202591.6%392
November 202593.9%428
October 202592.9%409
September 202586.6%426
August 202586%451
July 202582.5%355
June 202584.1%327
May 202589.3%309
April 202587.1%295
March 202590%289
February 202589.7%302
January 202588.7%319
December 202491%333
November 202491.6%347
October 202494.3%383
September 202492%451
August 202493.9%493
July 202490.4%490
June 202489.1%458
May 202486.5%446
April 202483.9%466
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 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
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust16.4 mi9882%+1.1 pp
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust19.1 mi12898%+17.9 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi1,20048%-32.3 pp
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.7 mi32072%-8.6 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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