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Cardiology waiting times at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,564 people were on the Cardiology at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (78%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
4,564
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
77.7%
England: 67.9%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

This hospital's published position is 9.8 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 10.3% of everyone waiting at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Cardiology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Cardiology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 77.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 70.3% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
77.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
75.4% then · change to latest +2.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
77.4% then · change to latest +0.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
70.3% then · change to latest +7.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
47.3% then · change to latest +30.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202677.7%4,564
July 202676.9%4,653
June 202676.5%4,664
May 202675.4%4,624
April 202675.2%4,747
March 202678.1%4,850
February 202677.4%4,665
January 202672.7%4,717
December 202570.6%4,802
November 202572.2%4,887
October 202571.7%4,849
September 202571.7%4,656
August 202570.3%4,470
July 202570.8%4,450
June 202569.9%4,516
May 202566.3%4,458
April 202565.9%4,514
March 202566.2%4,402
February 202564.6%4,198
January 202563.4%4,142
December 202462.8%4,309
November 202457.5%4,469
October 202453.5%4,642
September 202450.5%5,060
August 202448.6%5,306
July 202446.9%5,555
June 202446.6%5,947
May 202448.1%6,176
April 202447.3%6,253
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering cardiology 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 Cardiology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6.2 mi4,80467%-10.4 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.8 mi1,94546%-31.7 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust9.4 mi2,76663%-14.7 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust12.2 mi8,24559%-19.1 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust12.7 mi95375%-2.5 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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