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Whittington Health NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 22,839 people were on the Whittington Health NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · London · ODS code RKE

People waiting (all services)
22,839
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.3%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
81
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

81 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) 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 Whittington Health NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
General surgery4,11063%63.0%60+8.5 pp
Gynaecology3,16560%61.0%19-2.9 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)2,36662%59.0%0+11.1 pp
Orthopaedics2,20278%60.6%0-5.8 pp
Urology1,85276%65.0%0+2.8 pp
Dermatology1,74033%69.0%0-5.7 pp
Gastroenterology1,18584%69.3%0+9.7 pp
Ophthalmology1,13381%73.8%0+14.1 pp
Neurology88174%61.7%0+36.8 pp
Cardiology84677%68.2%1+21.5 pp
Respiratory medicine70190%74.8%0-5.1 pp
Rheumatology29391%70.8%0-9.2 pp
Plastic surgery13152%59.3%0+24.2 pp
Oral surgery12369%55.0%1+23.8 pp
Elderly medicine76100%83.1%00 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Whittington Health NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.2 percentage points (65% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.1 points over 3 months (71.4% in March 2026); up 9.2 points over 6 months (59.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.2 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 202565.1%
August 202563.2%
September 202561.9%
October 202560.4%
November 202560.1%
December 202559.1%
January 202657.9%
February 202661.5%
March 202671.4%
April 202670.7%
May 202670.3%
June 202668.3%

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 Whittington Health NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202526,46165.1%401
August 202526,97863.2%539
September 202527,05561.9%568
October 202526,70060.4%515
November 202527,94160.1%520
December 202528,78359.1%658
January 202627,92157.9%434
February 202625,09661.5%216
March 202621,82071.4%76
April 202622,42270.7%95
May 202623,28170.3%83
June 202622,83968.3%81

Diagnostic tests

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

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

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  • 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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