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NHS waiting times in East Midlands

8 NHS trusts in the East Midlands NHS region reported referral-to-treatment figures for August 2026.

NHS trusts with data
8
People waiting (combined)
464,254
Sum of published trust totals
Best-performing trust
92.3%
share under 18 weeks
Lowest
60.3%
share under 18 weeks

Trusts compared

Trusts whose registered region is this NHS region, listed alphabetically. Regions are NHS England administrative areas, so a trust near a boundary may serve people across it. All-services figures hide large differences between individual services, so open a trust to see service-level figures.

NHS trusts in East Midlands
TrustWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeksTests over 6 wks
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust26,72864%49212.8%
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust32,04568%8941.7%
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust1392%0—
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust86,33962%2,40441.4%
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust33,43564%46811.2%
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust69,98963%1,08956.6%
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust100,81661%2,17633.3%
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust114,88960%2,45512.7%

A further 32 NHS-funded independent-sector and other providers in this area are not listed because their case mix makes direct comparison misleading.

Services where local trusts differ most

Gap in the share waiting under 18 weeks between the highest and lowest trust here, for services with at least 200 people waiting.

  • Elderly medicine · 5 trusts · England 84.3%

    University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust: 92.5% — Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: 48.2% (gap 44.3 pp)

  • General surgery · 7 trusts · England 63.2%

    United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 83.0% — Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 42.2% (gap 40.8 pp)

  • Rheumatology · 6 trusts · England 70.4%

    Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 88.8% — United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 49.1% (gap 39.7 pp)

  • Oral surgery · 7 trusts · England 53.8%

    University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust: 72.3% — Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust: 32.8% (gap 39.5 pp)

  • Dermatology · 7 trusts · England 69.0%

    University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: 89.9% — United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 57.4% (gap 32.5 pp)

  • Cardiology · 7 trusts · England 67.9%

    United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 90.2% — Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 60.8% (gap 29.4 pp)

  • General medicine · 2 trusts · England 72.3%

    Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 73.4% — United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 45.9% (gap 27.5 pp)

  • Orthopaedics · 7 trusts · England 60.9%

    United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust: 66.5% — University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: 39.1% (gap 27.4 pp)

How 18-week performance changed over 12 months

Of the 78 hospital-and-specialty pages for NHS trusts in the East Midlands NHS region with enough comparable published history (6 organisations), these are the 12-month changes in the share of each waiting list waiting under 18 weeks, August 2025 to August 2026:

  • 44 of 7818-week performance improved by 3 or more percentage points
  • 20 of 7818-week performance broadly stable (change under 3 percentage points)
  • 14 of 7818-week performance deteriorated by 3 or more percentage points

These are counts of provider-and-specialty pages, not people. A large and a small waiting list each count once, so the counts describe how many published lists moved in each direction, not how waits changed for patients in general. They do not predict any individual wait and say nothing about quality of care. Figures are for whole trusts or providers, not individual hospital sites. Lists are alphabetical, not ranked.

18-week performance improved by 3 or more percentage points (44 pages, first 5 A–Z)

39 more in this group. Every hospital page is listed in the hospital trust directory.

18-week performance broadly stable (change under 3 percentage points) (20 pages, first 5 A–Z)

15 more in this group. Every hospital page is listed in the hospital trust directory.

18-week performance deteriorated by 3 or more percentage points (14 pages, first 5 A–Z)

9 more in this group. Every hospital page is listed in the hospital trust directory.

NHS waiting trends across England explains the method and covers every specialty and area.

Related areas

Other area pages covering the same NHS trusts.

Distance is not travel time

Distances are straight-line between registered addresses and city centres. Trusts often run several hospital sites, so the site you would attend may be closer or further.

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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