NHS Wait Helper

Waiting times by specialty

Elderly medicine waiting times in England

At the end of June 2026, 26,639 people were on the England elderly medicine waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (83%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS England reports this service as Elderly Medicine Service. Geriatric medicine clinics for older adults. It commonly includes falls clinics, memory assessment in some trusts, frailty review.

People waiting
26,639
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
83.1%
Share of this published list
Over 52 weeks
96
Share of all NHS waits
0.4%
of 7,178,718 total

96 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on the England elderly medicine list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (85% to 83%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (82.8% in March 2026); up 2.2 points over 6 months (80.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -1.5 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202584.6%
August 202583.6%
September 202584.1%
October 202583.6%
November 202581.8%
December 202580.9%
January 202679.3%
February 202680.4%
March 202682.8%
April 202682.4%
May 202682.8%
June 202683.1%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Elderly medicine figures for England
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202525,20884.6%28
August 202525,97183.6%37
September 202526,07984.1%26
October 202526,13583.6%61
November 202525,92281.8%101
December 202526,73580.9%126
January 202626,37179.3%143
February 202626,54580.4%168
March 202626,03882.8%156
April 202626,51382.4%159
May 202626,56982.8%135
June 202626,63983.1%96

How much hospitals differ

Across the 48 NHS trusts with data, the share waiting under 18 weeks ranges from 54% (Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust) to 100% (Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust) — a 46-point gap. These published figures do not predict when an individual patient will receive an appointment or treatment.

  • 80% or more under 18 weeks31 trusts
  • 65% to 79%11 trusts
  • 50% to 64%6 trusts
  • Under 50%0 trusts

NHS trusts by published position

Trusts with at least 200 people on this list, most recent month, sorted by share waiting under 18 weeks. Small differences are not meaningful.

NHS trusts reporting Elderly medicine waits
TrustRegionWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustSouth East213100%0
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth East640100%0
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS TrustWest Midlands250100%0
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS TrustLondon33098%0
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth East21898%0
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustYorkshire and The Humber26497%0
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon51996%0
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouth East27495%0
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustNorth East21195%0
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation TrustNorth East40594%0
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustNorth West21493%0
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustLondon84193%1
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth West35993%0
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustSouth West28592%0
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon28792%0
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLondon53292%2
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation TrustEast Midlands29891%0
Bristol NHS Foundation TrustSouth West20191%0
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustWest Midlands29090%0
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth East67690%0
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustNorth West21190%0
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustSouth East33187%0
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation TrustYorkshire and The Humber30187%0
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustSouth West32986%1
Dartford and Gravesham NHS TrustSouth East32586%0
Bolton NHS Foundation TrustNorth West43185%0
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustNorth West39185%0
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustEast Midlands57384%0
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustSouth West76381%0
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustNorth East94381%0
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustSouth East25981%0
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth East25379%0
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation TrustEast of England65777%10
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustEast of England32677%0
Somerset NHS Foundation TrustSouth West67977%2
North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustEast of England33776%0
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustEast Midlands26472%0
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustNorth West28771%0
Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustLondon30669%0
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustEast Midlands38469%1
Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustSouth West27768%0
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth West32967%0
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustLondon22264%1
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation TrustNorth West38562%1
Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustNorth West65761%0
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustYorkshire and The Humber43659%0
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth West1,10555%0
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustEast Midlands1,16454%65

What this measure includes

  • These figures cover consultant-led referral-to-treatment pathways where the patient was still waiting to start treatment at the end of the reporting month.
  • People can be at different stages of an incomplete referral-to-treatment pathway. The figures do not show the stage of an individual patient's pathway.
  • These published aggregate figures do not show the clinical priority of an individual referral.

Checking your own position

Published figures describe a whole list for one month. To work out how long you have been waiting, use the wait check. The team named on your appointment letter is the only source for your actual place on a list.

How to read a specialty figure

These are end-of-month counts of people on an incomplete consultant-led referral-to-treatment pathway. One specialty list holds referrals of different clinical priority and people at different stages, and the published figures do not separate them, so this is context rather than a forecast for any individual.

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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