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NHS gynaecology waiting times in England, May 2026 data

NHS England published these figures on 9 July 2026. They describe people still waiting for treatment as of 31 May 2026, at 199 providers that reported gynaecology pathways that month: 119 NHS trusts and 80 independent-sector providers, published on separate sheets. Of those, 12 have a median that NHS England does not publish, so they are never ranked here: we do not compare a provider we have no median for. Every median and percentile on this page is a gynaecology specialty average, covering every condition treated in that specialty. It is not a figure for endometriosis, or for any other single condition, and no figure here tells you what your own wait will be.

The range across NHS trusts, May 2026 data

Among the 117 NHS trusts that meet the threshold, the shortest published median gynaecology wait is 5.5 weeks and the longest is 19.7 weeks. That is a spread of 3.6x between the two ends of the same specialty, as of 31 May 2026.

Shortest published median wait, NHS trusts

5.5 weeks

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London. Half of the people still waiting there had waited less than this. NHS trusts with 500 or more incomplete pathways only. This is a gynaecology specialty average for every condition treated in that specialty.

As of 31 May 2026. NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider

Longest published median wait, NHS trusts

19.7 weeks

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. Half of the people still waiting there had waited longer than this. NHS trusts with 500 or more incomplete pathways only. This is a gynaecology specialty average for every condition treated in that specialty.

As of 31 May 2026. NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider

This comparison describes NHS trusts only. Only providers with 500 or more incomplete pathways and a published median are compared.

Providers reporting this specialty

119

NHS trusts. NHS England also published 80 independent-sector providers on a separate sheet, covered in their own section below.

As of 31 May 2026. NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider

Waiting 52 weeks or more

10,911

Sum of NHS England's published per-trust counts, across 119 NHS trusts and 550,379 incomplete pathways.

As of 31 May 2026. NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider

The independent sector, on the same measure

Among independent-sector providers, 15 met the same threshold. Their shortest published median gynaecology wait is 9.3 weeks and their longest is 22.7 weeks, a spread of 2.4x.

The independent-sector range sits above the NHS trust range at both ends. Its shortest published median (9.3 weeks) is longer than the shortest at any NHS trust in the comparison (5.5 weeks), and its longest (22.7 weeks) is longer than the longest at any NHS trust in the comparison (19.7 weeks). Both sets of figures are specialty averages taken from the same NHS England file, as of 31 May 2026.

Under the NHS patient choice rules a person may ask to be referred to a provider that holds an NHS contract, and that can include independent providers. On this data, an independent provider is not a provider with a shorter published median. We state the published figures and leave the decision where it belongs, with the person and their clinician.

As of 31 May 2026. NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider

This comparison describes NHS trusts and independent-sector providers separately, from the two sheets NHS England publishes. Only providers with 500 or more incomplete pathways and a published median are compared.

Every reporting NHS trust

Published medians for the same specialty differ widely between trusts. This comparison describes NHS trusts only. Only providers with 500 or more incomplete pathways and a published median are compared. Only trusts with 500 or more incomplete pathways and a published median are ranked: 117 of 119. Of the rest, 0 reported pathways without a published median and 2 sat below the volume floor. Those rows are still printed below, and marked.

Gynaecology specialty-average waiting times at NHS trusts in England, May 2026 data, as of 31 May 2026.
NHS trustRegionMedian wait, specialty average92nd percentileWithin 18 weeksOn the list52 weeks or more
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon5.5 weeks15.2 weeks98.5%1,4160
Isle Of Wight NHS TrustSouth East7.6 weeks24.7 weeks85.5%8980
Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire7.7 weeks33.5 weeks72.1%2,7701
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire7.8 weeks20.2 weeks88.3%3,52016
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustLondon8.5 weeks28.9 weeks79.8%4,24914
South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire8.6 weeks23.1 weeks83.6%3,0300
Harrogate And District NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire8.7 weeks27.2 weeks77.8%1,4540
Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon9.4 weeks23.0 weeks87.4%6,7051
Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustSouth East9.7 weeks38.7 weeks70.4%3,79940
Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustMidlands9.8 weeks31.4 weeks78.6%2,3910
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustSouth West10.1 weeks28.9 weeks80.6%2,8414
Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustLondon10.1 weeks33.6 weeks71.0%6,4260
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire10.4 weeks30.1 weeks76.4%4,1320
Kingston And Richmond NHS Foundation TrustLondon10.4 weeks33.3 weeks72.4%4,18839
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustSouth East10.5 weeks25.5 weeks80.8%2,8496
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustEast of England10.8 weeks40.6 weeks70.0%3,25169
Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustSouth East10.8 weeks28.8 weeks71.1%5,3280
Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire11.2 weeks33.0 weeks71.4%2,9730
Croydon Health Services NHS TrustLondon11.2 weeks34.9 weeks74.2%3,45374
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire11.3 weeks28.9 weeks72.7%2,7200
University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustNorth West11.5 weeks38.7 weeks68.3%2,54045
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustEast of England11.5 weeks34.5 weeks67.8%1,55721
East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustEast of England11.5 weeks33.5 weeks70.3%4,2942
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire11.6 weeks37.9 weeks70.1%2,20030
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth East11.7 weeks41.1 weeks67.6%4,16085
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustEast of England11.8 weeks38.4 weeks68.5%2,22924
London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustLondon12.0 weeks36.4 weeks66.7%5,79638
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth West12.1 weeks34.3 weeks69.6%4,2292
Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustNorth West12.1 weeks37.2 weeks69.0%5,52057
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustSouth West12.2 weeks36.7 weeks64.9%3,21142
George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustMidlands12.2 weeks36.6 weeks64.8%1,5984
North Bristol NHS TrustSouth West12.3 weeks34.3 weeks68.4%5,0966
Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth West12.4 weeks39.5 weeks64.1%2,98779
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustEast of England12.5 weeks35.4 weeks66.2%6,1171
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire12.5 weeks36.2 weeks65.1%3,09926
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire12.6 weeks31.0 weeks64.3%2,1260
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation TrustSouth West12.6 weeks41.4 weeks64.0%1,40419
Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustSouth West12.7 weeks37.2 weeks67.5%2,6168
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustNorth East and Yorkshire12.7 weeks38.9 weeks62.8%9,74841
Barts Health NHS TrustLondon12.7 weeks35.3 weeks66.3%8,80421
County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire12.7 weeks38.2 weeks65.7%4,53195
The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire12.8 weeks43.3 weeks63.8%3,726103
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustMidlands12.8 weeks36.3 weeks61.7%8,5120
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMidlands12.9 weeks46.1 weeks62.6%3,359107
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustSouth East13.1 weeks36.5 weeks62.6%2,25531
Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustLondon13.1 weeks38.9 weeks64.3%8,732153
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustEast of England13.1 weeks46.5 weeks60.7%2,10486
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustNorth West13.1 weeks37.5 weeks61.6%2,8966
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMidlands13.2 weeks35.8 weeks64.1%2,7355
North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation TrustNorth West13.3 weeks38.3 weeks66.2%3,47836
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustMidlands13.3 weeks37.4 weeks63.5%2,79212
Tameside And Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustNorth West13.3 weeks30.5 weeks65.2%1,9590
University Hospitals Bristol And Weston NHS Foundation TrustSouth West13.4 weeks42.1 weeks62.0%3,66167
Whittington Health NHS TrustLondon13.5 weeks39.2 weeks61.1%3,1337
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth West13.5 weeks44.0 weeks60.2%2,25290
Birmingham Women's And Children's NHS Foundation TrustMidlands13.5 weeks40.2 weeks60.0%6,2047
University Hospitals Of North Midlands NHS TrustMidlands13.6 weeks44.4 weeks61.8%4,995214
Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustLondon13.6 weeks38.2 weeks61.5%6,15360
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustNorth East and Yorkshire13.7 weeks40.2 weeks60.0%5,716118
Stockport NHS Foundation TrustNorth West13.7 weeks40.1 weeks59.4%2,95233
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustMidlands13.7 weeks37.4 weeks61.6%3,4333
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustSouth West13.8 weeks41.9 weeks60.7%5,12487
Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustSouth East13.8 weeks38.8 weeks62.4%3,5725
The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS TrustMidlands13.8 weeks36.6 weeks61.8%4,4370
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMidlands14.0 weeks42.4 weeks60.6%2,53959
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustSouth East14.1 weeks37.5 weeks60.6%6,46720
Wye Valley NHS TrustMidlands14.2 weeks40.3 weeks59.7%2,0228
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation TrustNorth West14.2 weeks42.8 weeks61.0%10,080247
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon14.3 weeks36.6 weeks62.4%8,03258
Dartford And Gravesham NHS TrustSouth East14.5 weeks44.4 weeks58.2%4,607109
Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustMidlands14.5 weeks37.1 weeks59.5%5,07927
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustMidlands14.5 weeks34.6 weeks59.6%5,6050
University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation TrustMidlands14.5 weeks43.9 weeks57.9%7,772222
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustSouth West14.7 weeks42.5 weeks57.7%3,19682
Medway NHS Foundation TrustSouth East14.7 weeks33.2 weeks59.5%4,0540
University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS TrustMidlands14.8 weeks39.4 weeks58.9%9,387138
North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire14.8 weeks40.4 weeks57.7%3,06862
Airedale NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire14.8 weeks38.6 weeks60.7%1,7227
Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire15.0 weeks44.8 weeks57.7%4,675156
East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation TrustEast of England15.0 weeks40.1 weeks58.0%8,58752
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustNorth West15.2 weeks39.2 weeks57.9%6,789154
Somerset NHS Foundation TrustSouth West15.3 weeks41.8 weeks56.7%3,84772
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustNorth West15.3 weeks47.9 weeks57.7%9,989544
Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustNorth West15.3 weeks44.5 weeks58.8%2,62681
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth East15.4 weeks47.1 weeks56.5%7,328339
Lewisham And Greenwich NHS TrustLondon15.5 weeks42.6 weeks57.8%7,88797
Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustEast of England15.8 weeks48.8 weeks55.4%5,530330
Ashford And St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth East15.9 weeks38.7 weeks55.7%3,58613
East Cheshire NHS TrustNorth West15.9 weeks45.8 weeks55.4%2,19665
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustMidlands16.1 weeks47.4 weeks55.1%5,983295
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth West16.2 weeks45.4 weeks54.7%1,79425
West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustEast of England16.3 weeks46.6 weeks53.7%3,165132
North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustEast of England16.3 weeks42.7 weeks54.5%6,33370
Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustNorth West16.3 weeks40.7 weeks54.3%18,438146
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustSouth East16.3 weeks48.3 weeks53.7%10,547501
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustMidlands16.4 weeks51.2 weeks54.4%7,979595
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth West16.4 weeks39.8 weeks54.3%3,64744
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustSouth West16.6 weeks45.6 weeks53.2%6,639129
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustMidlands16.6 weeks42.8 weeks53.8%6,23556
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouth East16.6 weeks50.5 weeks52.7%4,276293
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustSouth East16.7 weeks45.9 weeks52.6%4,927181
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustEast of England17.1 weeks45.7 weeks52.7%3,967173
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon17.1 weeks43.5 weeks52.2%4,31688
Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation TrustEast of England17.2 weeks46.8 weeks51.9%15,104574
Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLondon17.3 weeks43.2 weeks51.7%7,08754
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire17.5 weeks49.8 weeks51.0%3,846216
York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth East and Yorkshire17.8 weeks41.1 weeks50.5%3,56716
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon17.9 weeks51.3 weeks50.2%5,992441
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustSouth East17.9 weeks41.8 weeks50.1%3,80122
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustNorth East and Yorkshire18.2 weeks48.8 weeks49.7%6,595364
East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustSouth East18.3 weeks43.5 weeks49.3%5,26481
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustEast of England18.4 weeks48.6 weeks49.3%4,511233
University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS TrustMidlands18.4 weeks46.5 weeks49.0%6,890242
Bolton NHS Foundation TrustNorth West18.6 weeks44.6 weeks48.8%3,30947
Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustLondon19.0 weeks49.7 weeks47.8%6,028375
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorth West19.2 weeks55.9 weeks48.0%3,159410
Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustMidlands19.7 weeks43.6 weeks45.9%3,73126
The Christie NHS Foundation Trustnot rankedNorth West5.9 weeks16.5 weeks94.1%510
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trustnot rankedMidlands11.7 weeks27.8 weeks74.2%930

Waits of 52 weeks or more

Across the 119 reporting NHS trusts, NHS England published 10,911 gynaecology pathways where the person had been waiting a year or longer as of 31 May 2026. The ten largest published counts:

  • Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust595
  • Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation Trust574
  • Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust544
  • University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust501
  • University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust441
  • Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust410
  • Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust375
  • Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust364
  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust339
  • Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust330

Diagnostic delay is a different measurement

Diagnostic delay is the time a person spends between first raising symptoms and receiving a diagnosis. It is not the NHS waiting-list time, it cannot be added to one, and it cannot be compared with one. The figures elsewhere on this page measure how long people currently on a waiting list have been waiting for treatment in one specialty.

9 years and 4 months is the UK average reported by Endometriosis UK in The State of Endometriosis Care in the UK, published February 2026, from an online survey of 3,075 people diagnosed with endometriosis in the UK since 2015, with fieldwork in September and October 2025. The same report puts the England figure at 9 years and 4 months, Wales at 9 years and 11 months, Northern Ireland at 9 years and 10 months and Scotland at 10 years and 2 months. It measures how long people spend seeking an answer. It sits alongside the figures above, and never inside them.

What that figure measures, in the publisher's own words: Average time from first visit to GP with symptoms to diagnosis.

Recorded February 2026. Endometriosis UK, facts and figures Endometriosis UK, The State of Endometriosis Care in the UK (PDF, February 2026)

How this page is built

Source file: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times, Incomplete Pathways by Provider, May 2026 data, published 9 July 2026. We scrape the NHS England landing page for the exact file each month rather than guessing its address, then freeze what we read as a dated edition. Editions never change once published.

Population: this page describes NHS trusts only. NHS England publishes independent-sector providers on a separate sheet and we hold those rows too, 80 of them for this specialty, but they are excluded from every comparison above so that a spread claim describes one population.

Figures: every median, 92nd percentile and percentage is NHS England's own derived column, carried through unchanged. We recompute nothing except sums of published counts, which say so where they appear.

Ranking: a trust is only compared when it has a published median and at least 500 incomplete pathways. NHS England publishes no median where a trust reported no clock starts or where its submission was flagged for data quality, and a trust with a handful of pathways is not a meaningful shortest or longest. Unranked trusts are shown, marked, and never described as fastest or slowest.

What these figures are not: a median for a specialty is not a wait for one condition, and not a prediction for one person. Referral routes, triage and clinical urgency all sit underneath a specialty average.

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Changelog: what changed between editions

Derived by diffing the frozen April 2026 edition against the frozen May 2026 edition, across 199 rows for this specialty. NHS England restates figures as well as adding months, so a change here can be a restatement rather than a movement in a queue. 752 published values differ, of which 188 are specialty-average medians.

  • Beacon Park Hospital11.125 to 11.625 weeks
  • Beardwood Hospital16.7083 to 18.875 weeks
  • Beaumont Hospital10.975 to 12.0556 weeks
  • Benenden Hospital8.25 to 9.6579 weeks
  • Bishops Wood Hospital7.3571 to 7.5 weeks
  • Boston West Hospital20.1 to 16.75 weeks
  • Buckshaw Hospital20.0227 to 17.1562 weeks
  • Cavell Hospital10.4 to 8.6667 weeks
  • Circle Reading Hospital5.5 to 6.8333 weeks
  • Claremont Private Hospital13.7917 to 15.7143 weeks
  • Clementine Churchill Hospital5.9 to 5.5 weeks
  • Cora Health Diagnostics (Formerly Healthshare Diagnostics)14.2407 to 14.0625 weeks

Showing the first 12. The full diff is in the two editions' data files, which are frozen and downloadable.

Read the full changelog for this dataset, including every edition we hold and the providers that entered or left the file.

How current this is meant to be

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NHS England gynaecology waiting times, May 2026 data, as of 31 May 2026.

119 NHS trusts reported gynaecology pathways.

Among NHS trusts: shortest published median wait 5.5 weeks at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, longest 19.7 weeks at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. That is a spread of 3.6x.

Both are specialty averages for gynaecology as a whole, not a figure for any single condition. Only providers with 500 or more incomplete pathways and a published median are compared.

Among independent-sector providers: shortest published median wait 9.3 weeks, longest 22.7 weeks, from 15 providers compared on the same threshold.

The independent-sector range is slower than the NHS trust range at both ends. Both figures come from the same NHS England file.

Coverage: 199 providers reported this specialty. 12 have a median that NHS England does not publish, so they are excluded from every comparison above.

Source: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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