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Cardiology waiting times at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,951 people were on the Cardiology at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (86%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
1,951
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
85.6%
England: 68.2%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 17.4 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 3.3% of everyone waiting at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 14.5 percentage points (71% to 86%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.9 points over 3 months (81.7% in March 2026); up 11.2 points over 6 months (74.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +14.5 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 202571.1%
August 202570.7%
September 202571.6%
October 202572.8%
November 202572.6%
December 202574.4%
January 202673.4%
February 202680.9%
March 202681.7%
April 202683.6%
May 202686.1%
June 202685.6%

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 Cardiology figures at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,54271.1%2
August 20252,43270.7%2
September 20252,40071.6%3
October 20252,21072.8%4
November 20252,28272.6%1
December 20252,29674.4%0
January 20262,23773.4%1
February 20262,11380.9%0
March 20262,05181.7%0
April 20261,97683.6%0
May 20261,93086.1%0
June 20261,95185.6%0

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
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust20.6 mi5,13390%+4.3 pp
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi7,44879%-6.6 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi1,90786%+0.2 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust22.9 mi5,15349%-36.5 pp
Wye Valley NHS Trust24.1 mi1,86759%-26.4 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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