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Urology waiting times at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 5,029 people were on the Urology at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (58%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
5,029
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.5%
England: 64.8%
Over 52 weeks
16
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

16 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.3 percentage points behind 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 8.4% of everyone waiting at Worcestershire Acute 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 deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Urology at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 57.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 60.6% 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
57.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
56.4% then · change to latest +1.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
55.9% then · change to latest +1.6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
60.6% then · change to latest -3.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
51.2% then · change to latest +6.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202657.5%5,029
July 202657.5%5,111
June 202658.4%5,062
May 202656.4%5,057
April 202658.6%4,876
March 202661.3%4,733
February 202655.9%4,847
January 202655.2%4,735
December 202557.1%4,720
November 202558%4,517
October 202559.9%4,590
September 202561%4,455
August 202560.6%4,285
July 202562%4,239
June 202564.6%4,138
May 202564.8%4,362
April 202566.4%4,451
March 202565.9%4,693
February 202563.4%4,638
January 202559.4%4,771
December 202459.4%4,633
November 202460.5%4,483
October 202459.1%4,622
September 202454%4,992
August 202453%5,222
July 202451.3%5,635
June 202452.5%5,940
May 202453.1%5,770
April 202451.2%5,673
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
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust20.6 mi6,61266%+8.1 pp
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi2,99874%+16.5 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi1,65770%+12.8 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust22.9 mi3,85262%+4.3 pp
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi250%-7.5 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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