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University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 47,271 people were on the University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (67%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South West · ODS code RK9

People waiting (all services)
47,271
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
67.4%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
717
Services reported
17
with people currently waiting

717 people (1.5%, roughly 1 in 67) 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 Plymouth NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology5,74069%73.8%37+7.5 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)4,07373%59.0%18+10.4 pp
Orthopaedics3,42355%60.6%205+4.5 pp
Cardiology3,10258%68.2%47+0.1 pp
Gynaecology2,96261%61.0%84+16.9 pp
Urology2,86765%65.0%50+0.5 pp
Dermatology2,35590%69.0%0+17.4 pp
Neurology2,05970%61.7%13+18.6 pp
Neurosurgery1,91661%62.8%59+15.6 pp
Respiratory medicine1,86767%74.8%11-3.2 pp
Gastroenterology1,33969%69.3%1+1 pp
Plastic surgery1,05370%59.3%14+7.1 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery54156%72.8%19+1.3 pp
Rheumatology51987%70.8%0+9.4 pp
General medicine5494%71.4%0-0.9 pp
General surgery2387%63.0%0+9.2 pp
Elderly medicine1493%83.1%0+42.9 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.4 percentage points (61% to 67%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (65.6% in March 2026); up 7.1 points over 6 months (60.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.4 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 202561%
August 202559.9%
September 202560.5%
October 202560.6%
November 202560.8%
December 202560.3%
January 202661.5%
February 202662.6%
March 202665.6%
April 202665.9%
May 202667%
June 202667.4%

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 all-services figures for University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202549,31261.0%1,733
August 202549,96159.9%1,814
September 202548,73160.5%1,748
October 202549,23860.6%1,699
November 202549,13160.8%1,513
December 202548,11360.3%1,288
January 202647,94361.5%1,077
February 202647,35462.6%957
March 202645,70765.6%630
April 202646,28465.9%614
May 202647,64267.0%607
June 202647,27167.4%717

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

Appointment letters carry the contact route for the team holding the referral. We only list contact details we have checked against the organisation's own published pages, and none are listed here yet.

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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