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Waiting times by location

NHS waiting times in South West

13 NHS trusts in the South West NHS region reported referral-to-treatment figures for June 2026.

NHS trusts with data
13
People waiting (combined)
584,221
Sum of published trust totals
Best-performing trust
97.3%
share under 18 weeks
Lowest
56.9%
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 South West
TrustWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeksTests over 6 wks
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust50,86869%4429.5%
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust73597%074.1%
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22,64461%39922.4%
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust69,86874%1517.3%
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust42,88157%1,0916.5%
North Bristol NHS Trust42,36572%551.7%
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust43,28074%46318.7%
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust74,06864%1,53838.3%
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust39,60670%13311.8%
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust29,73372%8413.8%
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust53,52465%1,31016.7%
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust67,37868%67213.3%
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust47,27167%71719.9%

A further 60 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 · 12 trusts · England 69.0%

    University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust: 90.4% — Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust: 29.3% (gap 61.1 pp)

  • General surgery · 9 trusts · England 63.0%

    University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust: 93.8% — Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 50.3% (gap 43.5 pp)

  • Neurology · 10 trusts · England 61.7%

    Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: 90.1% — Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust: 47.7% (gap 42.4 pp)

  • Respiratory medicine · 12 trusts · England 74.8%

    North Bristol NHS Trust: 97.9% — Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 58.6% (gap 39.2 pp)

  • Rheumatology · 11 trusts · England 70.8%

    Bristol NHS Foundation Trust: 96.8% — North Bristol NHS Trust: 62.1% (gap 34.7 pp)

  • Gastroenterology · 12 trusts · England 69.3%

    Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: 89.5% — Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 56.3% (gap 33.2 pp)

  • Urology · 11 trusts · England 65.0%

    Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust: 81.2% — Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 51.4% (gap 29.9 pp)

  • Oral surgery · 10 trusts · England 55.0%

    Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust: 73.9% — Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 44.3% (gap 29.6 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.

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