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Whittington Health NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 22,760 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)
22,760
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
67.5%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
101
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

101 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 surgery4,34164%63.2%72+10.5 pp
Gynaecology3,18959%59.6%25-0.6 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)2,60650%56.8%0-10.7 pp
Orthopaedics2,08978%60.9%0+2.3 pp
Dermatology1,74839%69.0%1-4.1 pp
Urology1,64773%64.8%0+3.9 pp
Gastroenterology1,10886%69.7%0+10.6 pp
Ophthalmology1,09181%72.2%2+8.1 pp
Neurology97370%62.3%0+24.5 pp
Cardiology95375%67.9%0+20.4 pp
Respiratory medicine70790%74.1%0-3.3 pp
Rheumatology30597%70.4%0+2.8 pp
Plastic surgery14453%59.4%0+24.1 pp
Oral surgery13170%53.8%0+14.8 pp
Elderly medicine91100%84.3%0+1.2 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Whittington Health NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (65% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.8 points over 3 months (70.3% in May 2026); up 6 points over 6 months (61.5% in February 2026); up 4.3 points over 12 months (63.2% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +2.4 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

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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%
July 202668.3%
August 202667.5%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

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
July 202622,90768.3%83
August 202622,76067.5%101

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

  • 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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