Waiting times by location
NHS waiting times near London
22 NHS trusts within 15 miles of London city centre reported referral-to-treatment figures for June 2026.
- NHS trusts with data
- 22
- People waiting (combined)
- 1,250,435
- Sum of published trust totals
- Best-performing trust
- 100.0%
- share under 18 weeks
- Lowest
- 63.2%
- share under 18 weeks
Trusts compared
Sorted by straight-line distance from a reference point in central London (not an administrative boundary; distances are between registered addresses, not travel time). All-services figures hide large differences between individual services, so open a trust to see service-level figures.
A further 38 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.
Dermatology · 17 trusts · England 69.0%
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust: 91.5% — Whittington Health NHS Trust: 32.9% (gap 58.5 pp)
Cardiology · 17 trusts · England 68.2%
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 96.6% — The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 47.5% (gap 49.1 pp)
Gynaecology · 17 trusts · England 61.0%
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 96.7% — Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust: 49.3% (gap 47.4 pp)
Plastic surgery · 8 trusts · England 59.3%
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust: 91.1% — Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 49.0% (gap 42.1 pp)
Neurology · 17 trusts · England 61.7%
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: 97.7% — Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust: 56.9% (gap 40.8 pp)
Urology · 17 trusts · England 65.0%
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust: 91.5% — Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust: 51.9% (gap 39.6 pp)
General medicine · 6 trusts · England 71.4%
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 91.2% — University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 52.2% (gap 39 pp)
Oral surgery · 15 trusts · England 55.0%
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust: 82.6% — Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 43.8% (gap 38.8 pp)
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.
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.