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Respiratory medicine waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,358 people were on the Respiratory medicine at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (82%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,358
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
81.8%
England: 74.8%
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 June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 7 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 2% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 7.5 percentage points (74% to 82%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.7 points over 3 months (79.1% in March 2026); up 5.6 points over 6 months (76.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.5 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 202574.3%
August 202573%
September 202577.5%
October 202577.3%
November 202575.7%
December 202576.2%
January 202674.6%
February 202677.8%
March 202679.1%
April 202679.3%
May 202680.7%
June 202681.8%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,40974.3%2
August 20252,38573.0%0
September 20252,23777.5%0
October 20252,09977.3%0
November 20252,06675.7%0
December 20251,93876.2%1
January 20261,97774.6%0
February 20262,19477.8%0
March 20262,21879.1%0
April 20262,40079.3%0
May 20262,34780.7%0
June 20262,35881.8%0

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust16.4 mi60075%-6.7 pp
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust19.1 mi2,60572%-9.9 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi2,14478%-3.8 pp
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.7 mi77978%-3.4 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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