Waiting times by location
NHS waiting times in South East
24 NHS trusts in the South East NHS region reported referral-to-treatment figures for June 2026.
- NHS trusts with data
- 24
- People waiting (combined)
- 1,010,923
- Sum of published trust totals
- Best-performing trust
- 100.0%
- share under 18 weeks
- Lowest
- 53.2%
- 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.
A further 94 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.
Rheumatology · 17 trusts · England 70.8%
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust: 100.0% — Medway NHS Foundation Trust: 31.1% (gap 68.9 pp)
Neurology · 16 trusts · England 61.7%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 88.7% — Medway NHS Foundation Trust: 32.5% (gap 56.2 pp)
Orthopaedics · 21 trusts · England 60.6%
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust: 99.8% — East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust: 45.5% (gap 54.4 pp)
Oral surgery · 16 trusts · England 55.0%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 86.9% — East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust: 33.6% (gap 53.3 pp)
General surgery · 18 trusts · England 63.0%
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust: 86.3% — University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust: 33.8% (gap 52.5 pp)
Cardiology · 20 trusts · England 68.2%
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: 94.7% — Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust: 42.9% (gap 51.9 pp)
Respiratory medicine · 18 trusts · England 74.8%
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust: 96.1% — East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust: 50.5% (gap 45.6 pp)
Urology · 18 trusts · England 65.0%
Isle of Wight NHS Trust: 97.6% — University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust: 53.7% (gap 43.8 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.