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Urology waiting times at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,769 people were on the Urology at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,769
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
73.5%
England: 64.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
12 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 8.7 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 6.2% of everyone waiting at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Urology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 73.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 70.8% 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
73.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
73.4% then · change to latest +0.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
75.1% then · change to latest -1.7 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
70.8% then · change to latest +2.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
56.6% then · change to latest +16.9 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202673.5%2,769
July 202674.9%2,717
June 202672.2%2,797
May 202673.4%2,912
April 202671.6%2,994
March 202672.3%2,973
February 202675.1%2,876
January 202674.1%2,834
December 202575.8%2,847
November 202573.9%2,890
October 202573.4%2,830
September 202572.1%2,706
August 202570.8%2,587
July 202569.7%2,410
June 202571.1%2,466
May 202567.8%2,442
April 202564.7%2,480
March 202565.9%2,504
February 202564%2,430
January 202563.1%2,356
December 202463.5%2,307
November 202463.6%2,541
October 202464.6%2,770
September 202462.7%2,864
August 202467.8%2,970
July 202462.2%3,204
June 202459.9%3,391
May 202459%3,557
April 202456.6%3,680
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 urology 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 Urology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust4.2 mi7597%+23.9 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6.2 mi4,22480%+6.3 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.8 mi1,58352%-21.9 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust9.4 mi2,61765%-8.2 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust12.2 mi9,68458%-15.4 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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