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Neurosurgery waiting times at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 504 people were on the Neurosurgery at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Neurosurgery across England

People waiting
504
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.2%
England: 62.8%
Over 52 weeks
5
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

5 people (1.0%, roughly 1 in 100) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.6 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 0.4% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 16.1 percentage points (40% to 56%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (57.2% in March 2026); up 8.7 points over 6 months (47.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +16.1 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 202540.1%
August 202539.2%
September 202540.1%
October 202553.5%
November 202545%
December 202547.5%
January 202647.4%
February 202649.3%
March 202657.2%
April 202656.9%
May 202661.8%
June 202656.2%

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 Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202558340.1%39
August 202558739.2%51
September 202554940.1%39
October 202566753.5%45
November 202554545.0%47
December 202553747.5%31
January 202653247.4%28
February 202653349.3%20
March 202659357.2%11
April 202659956.9%3
May 202662661.8%12
June 202650456.2%5

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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