Waiting times by location
NHS waiting times in West Midlands
19 NHS trusts in the West Midlands NHS region reported referral-to-treatment figures for June 2026.
- NHS trusts with data
- 19
- People waiting (combined)
- 717,100
- Sum of published trust totals
- Best-performing trust
- 96.8%
- share under 18 weeks
- Lowest
- 53.6%
- 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 39 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.
Neurology · 9 trusts · England 61.7%
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust: 95.1% — Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust: 45.1% (gap 50 pp)
Respiratory medicine · 12 trusts · England 74.8%
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust: 96.0% — South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust: 46.7% (gap 49.3 pp)
Cardiology · 12 trusts · England 68.2%
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust: 94.7% — Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust: 49.1% (gap 45.6 pp)
Gastroenterology · 12 trusts · England 69.3%
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust: 93.1% — Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust: 49.8% (gap 43.3 pp)
Orthopaedics · 15 trusts · England 60.6%
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust: 85.3% — The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 42.8% (gap 42.5 pp)
Oral surgery · 14 trusts · England 55.0%
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust: 76.7% — Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust: 37.2% (gap 39.5 pp)
Ophthalmology · 12 trusts · England 73.8%
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust: 89.3% — University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust: 54.0% (gap 35.3 pp)
Plastic surgery · 7 trusts · England 59.3%
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust: 74.0% — South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust: 41.0% (gap 33 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.