NHS waiting times by city and region
Location pages compare NHS trusts within a fixed distance of a city centre, or within an NHS region, using only published figures.
Latest published month held: June 2026.
Cities
- London
22 NHS trusts with data
- Birmingham
8 NHS trusts with data
- Manchester
6 NHS trusts with data
- Leeds
6 NHS trusts with data
- Liverpool
9 NHS trusts with data
- Sheffield
4 NHS trusts with data
- Bristol
3 NHS trusts with data
- Newcastle upon Tyne
5 NHS trusts with data
- Coventry
3 NHS trusts with data
- Southampton
3 NHS trusts with data
- Reading
4 NHS trusts with data
- Stoke-on-Trent
3 NHS trusts with data
- Cambridge
3 NHS trusts with data
- Middlesbrough
3 NHS trusts with data
- Preston
5 NHS trusts with data
Regions
- North East
8 NHS trusts with data
- North West
25 NHS trusts with data
- Yorkshire and the Humber
14 NHS trusts with data
- East Midlands
9 NHS trusts with data
- West Midlands
19 NHS trusts with data
- East of England
14 NHS trusts with data
- London region
21 NHS trusts with data
- South East
24 NHS trusts with data
- South West
13 NHS trusts with data
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.
Related guides on this site
- NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
- How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
- Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
- Your rights while you wait
Reference article on what the 18-week standard is and is not.
Everything on these pages comes from NHS England published statistics. See how we handle the data.