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Neurosurgery waiting times at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 572 people were on the Neurosurgery at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust · NHS trust · Neurosurgery across England

People waiting
572
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.7%
England: 62.8%
Over 52 weeks
9
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

9 people (1.6%, roughly 1 in 63) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 0.8% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 5 percentage points (66% to 61%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.1 points over 3 months (62.8% in March 2026); down 2.3 points over 6 months (63.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -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 202565.7%
August 202564.3%
September 202565.5%
October 202567.6%
November 202567.7%
December 202563%
January 202661.3%
February 202657.9%
March 202662.8%
April 202664.9%
May 202663.2%
June 202660.7%

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 Neurosurgery figures at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202549565.7%6
August 202553564.3%6
September 202555165.5%8
October 202561767.6%5
November 202557967.7%7
December 202555763.0%12
January 202656461.3%13
February 202653257.9%15
March 202651662.8%12
April 202655964.9%7
May 202656063.2%3
June 202657260.7%9

Other NHS trusts offering neurosurgery within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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