Hospital service waiting times

Cardiothoracic surgery waiting times at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 541 people were on the Cardiothoracic surgery at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust · NHS trust · Cardiothoracic surgery across England

People waiting: 541; End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks: 56.4%; England: 72.8%
Over 52 weeks: 19
Median wait: 16 wks; Published median for this list

19 people (3.5%, roughly 1 in 29) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 16.4 percentage points behind 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 1.1% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Plymouth 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 6.9 percentage points (50% to 56%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (56.9% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (55.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.9 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
Month	Within 18 weeks
July 2025	49.5%
August 2025	50.1%
September 2025	49.2%
October 2025	52.4%
November 2025	55.2%
December 2025	55.1%
January 2026	55.2%
February 2026	56.9%
March 2026	56.9%
April 2026	52.2%
May 2026	52%
June 2026	56.4%

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 Cardiothoracic surgery figures at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
Month	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Over 52 weeks
July 2025	555	49.5%	40
August 2025	557	50.1%	41
September 2025	555	49.2%	36
October 2025	573	52.4%	33
November 2025	565	55.2%	24
December 2025	568	55.1%	15
January 2026	569	55.2%	11
February 2026	547	56.9%	17
March 2026	538	56.9%	10
April 2026	546	52.2%	14
May 2026	535	52.0%	14
June 2026	541	56.4%	19

Other NHS trusts offering cardiothoracic surgery 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.

Related guides on this site

Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
What happens after 52 weeks on a waiting list
Background on how year-plus waits are treated in NHS reporting.
How to use PALS about a waiting list
Reference article explaining what a Patient Advice and Liaison Service does.

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