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Waiting times by location

NHS waiting times near Reading

4 NHS trusts within 15 miles of Reading city centre reported referral-to-treatment figures for August 2026.

NHS trusts with data
4
People waiting (combined)
151,025
Sum of published trust totals
Best-performing trust
100.0%
share under 18 weeks
Lowest
61.1%
share under 18 weeks

Trusts compared

Sorted by straight-line distance from a reference point in central Reading (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.

NHS trusts near Reading
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeksTests over 6 wks
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust0.8 mi34,59781%3517.1%
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust10.6 mi109100%00.0%
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi49,63563%1,18827.0%
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi66,68461%1,0787.0%

A further 8 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.

  • Oral surgery · 3 trusts · England 53.8%

    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 85.8% — Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust: 39.9% (gap 45.9 pp)

  • Neurology · 3 trusts · England 62.3%

    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 85.7% — Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust: 41.3% (gap 44.4 pp)

  • General surgery · 3 trusts · England 63.2%

    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 81.5% — Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 43.0% (gap 38.6 pp)

  • Rheumatology · 3 trusts · England 70.4%

    Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust: 91.9% — Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 57.1% (gap 34.7 pp)

  • Plastic surgery · 2 trusts · England 59.4%

    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 77.4% — Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust: 45.8% (gap 31.6 pp)

  • Orthopaedics · 3 trusts · England 60.9%

    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 82.9% — Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust: 53.7% (gap 29.2 pp)

  • Cardiology · 3 trusts · England 67.9%

    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 82.3% — Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 53.5% (gap 28.8 pp)

  • Gastroenterology · 3 trusts · England 69.7%

    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 82.0% — Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 60.5% (gap 21.5 pp)

How 18-week performance changed over 12 months

Of the 39 hospital-and-specialty pages for NHS trusts within 15 miles of Reading with enough comparable published history (3 organisations), these are the 12-month changes in the share of each waiting list waiting under 18 weeks, August 2025 to August 2026:

  • 22 of 3918-week performance improved by 3 or more percentage points
  • 9 of 3918-week performance broadly stable (change under 3 percentage points)
  • 8 of 3918-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 (22 pages, first 5 A–Z)

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

18-week performance broadly stable (change under 3 percentage points) (9 pages, first 5 A–Z)

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

18-week performance deteriorated by 3 or more percentage points (8 pages, first 5 A–Z)

3 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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