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.
| NHS trust | Region | Median wait, specialty average | 92nd percentile | Within 18 weeks | On the list | 52 weeks or more |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | London | 5.5 weeks | 15.2 weeks | 98.5% | 1,416 | 0 |
| Isle Of Wight NHS Trust | South East | 7.6 weeks | 24.7 weeks | 85.5% | 898 | 0 |
| Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 7.7 weeks | 33.5 weeks | 72.1% | 2,770 | 1 |
| The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 7.8 weeks | 20.2 weeks | 88.3% | 3,520 | 16 |
| Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | London | 8.5 weeks | 28.9 weeks | 79.8% | 4,249 | 14 |
| South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 8.6 weeks | 23.1 weeks | 83.6% | 3,030 | 0 |
| Harrogate And District NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 8.7 weeks | 27.2 weeks | 77.8% | 1,454 | 0 |
| Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | London | 9.4 weeks | 23.0 weeks | 87.4% | 6,705 | 1 |
| Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 9.7 weeks | 38.7 weeks | 70.4% | 3,799 | 40 |
| Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust | Midlands | 9.8 weeks | 31.4 weeks | 78.6% | 2,391 | 0 |
| Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust | South West | 10.1 weeks | 28.9 weeks | 80.6% | 2,841 | 4 |
| Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | London | 10.1 weeks | 33.6 weeks | 71.0% | 6,426 | 0 |
| Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 10.4 weeks | 30.1 weeks | 76.4% | 4,132 | 0 |
| Kingston And Richmond NHS Foundation Trust | London | 10.4 weeks | 33.3 weeks | 72.4% | 4,188 | 39 |
| Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 10.5 weeks | 25.5 weeks | 80.8% | 2,849 | 6 |
| The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust | East of England | 10.8 weeks | 40.6 weeks | 70.0% | 3,251 | 69 |
| Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust | South East | 10.8 weeks | 28.8 weeks | 71.1% | 5,328 | 0 |
| Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 11.2 weeks | 33.0 weeks | 71.4% | 2,973 | 0 |
| Croydon Health Services NHS Trust | London | 11.2 weeks | 34.9 weeks | 74.2% | 3,453 | 74 |
| Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 11.3 weeks | 28.9 weeks | 72.7% | 2,720 | 0 |
| University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 11.5 weeks | 38.7 weeks | 68.3% | 2,540 | 45 |
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 11.5 weeks | 34.5 weeks | 67.8% | 1,557 | 21 |
| East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust | East of England | 11.5 weeks | 33.5 weeks | 70.3% | 4,294 | 2 |
| Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 11.6 weeks | 37.9 weeks | 70.1% | 2,200 | 30 |
| Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 11.7 weeks | 41.1 weeks | 67.6% | 4,160 | 85 |
| West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | East of England | 11.8 weeks | 38.4 weeks | 68.5% | 2,229 | 24 |
| London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust | London | 12.0 weeks | 36.4 weeks | 66.7% | 5,796 | 38 |
| Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | South West | 12.1 weeks | 34.3 weeks | 69.6% | 4,229 | 2 |
| Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | North West | 12.1 weeks | 37.2 weeks | 69.0% | 5,520 | 57 |
| Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | South West | 12.2 weeks | 36.7 weeks | 64.9% | 3,211 | 42 |
| George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust | Midlands | 12.2 weeks | 36.6 weeks | 64.8% | 1,598 | 4 |
| North Bristol NHS Trust | South West | 12.3 weeks | 34.3 weeks | 68.4% | 5,096 | 6 |
| Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 12.4 weeks | 39.5 weeks | 64.1% | 2,987 | 79 |
| Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 12.5 weeks | 35.4 weeks | 66.2% | 6,117 | 1 |
| South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 12.5 weeks | 36.2 weeks | 65.1% | 3,099 | 26 |
| Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 12.6 weeks | 31.0 weeks | 64.3% | 2,126 | 0 |
| Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | South West | 12.6 weeks | 41.4 weeks | 64.0% | 1,404 | 19 |
| Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | South West | 12.7 weeks | 37.2 weeks | 67.5% | 2,616 | 8 |
| Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 12.7 weeks | 38.9 weeks | 62.8% | 9,748 | 41 |
| Barts Health NHS Trust | London | 12.7 weeks | 35.3 weeks | 66.3% | 8,804 | 21 |
| County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 12.7 weeks | 38.2 weeks | 65.7% | 4,531 | 95 |
| The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 12.8 weeks | 43.3 weeks | 63.8% | 3,726 | 103 |
| University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | Midlands | 12.8 weeks | 36.3 weeks | 61.7% | 8,512 | 0 |
| Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Midlands | 12.9 weeks | 46.1 weeks | 62.6% | 3,359 | 107 |
| Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 13.1 weeks | 36.5 weeks | 62.6% | 2,255 | 31 |
| Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | London | 13.1 weeks | 38.9 weeks | 64.3% | 8,732 | 153 |
| James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 13.1 weeks | 46.5 weeks | 60.7% | 2,104 | 86 |
| Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 13.1 weeks | 37.5 weeks | 61.6% | 2,896 | 6 |
| Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Midlands | 13.2 weeks | 35.8 weeks | 64.1% | 2,735 | 5 |
| North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 13.3 weeks | 38.3 weeks | 66.2% | 3,478 | 36 |
| South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust | Midlands | 13.3 weeks | 37.4 weeks | 63.5% | 2,792 | 12 |
| Tameside And Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 13.3 weeks | 30.5 weeks | 65.2% | 1,959 | 0 |
| University Hospitals Bristol And Weston NHS Foundation Trust | South West | 13.4 weeks | 42.1 weeks | 62.0% | 3,661 | 67 |
| Whittington Health NHS Trust | London | 13.5 weeks | 39.2 weeks | 61.1% | 3,133 | 7 |
| Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 13.5 weeks | 44.0 weeks | 60.2% | 2,252 | 90 |
| Birmingham Women's And Children's NHS Foundation Trust | Midlands | 13.5 weeks | 40.2 weeks | 60.0% | 6,204 | 7 |
| University Hospitals Of North Midlands NHS Trust | Midlands | 13.6 weeks | 44.4 weeks | 61.8% | 4,995 | 214 |
| Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust | London | 13.6 weeks | 38.2 weeks | 61.5% | 6,153 | 60 |
| Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 13.7 weeks | 40.2 weeks | 60.0% | 5,716 | 118 |
| Stockport NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 13.7 weeks | 40.1 weeks | 59.4% | 2,952 | 33 |
| The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust | Midlands | 13.7 weeks | 37.4 weeks | 61.6% | 3,433 | 3 |
| Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | South West | 13.8 weeks | 41.9 weeks | 60.7% | 5,124 | 87 |
| Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | South East | 13.8 weeks | 38.8 weeks | 62.4% | 3,572 | 5 |
| The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS Trust | Midlands | 13.8 weeks | 36.6 weeks | 61.8% | 4,437 | 0 |
| Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Midlands | 14.0 weeks | 42.4 weeks | 60.6% | 2,539 | 59 |
| East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 14.1 weeks | 37.5 weeks | 60.6% | 6,467 | 20 |
| Wye Valley NHS Trust | Midlands | 14.2 weeks | 40.3 weeks | 59.7% | 2,022 | 8 |
| Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 14.2 weeks | 42.8 weeks | 61.0% | 10,080 | 247 |
| King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | London | 14.3 weeks | 36.6 weeks | 62.4% | 8,032 | 58 |
| Dartford And Gravesham NHS Trust | South East | 14.5 weeks | 44.4 weeks | 58.2% | 4,607 | 109 |
| Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | Midlands | 14.5 weeks | 37.1 weeks | 59.5% | 5,079 | 27 |
| Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | Midlands | 14.5 weeks | 34.6 weeks | 59.6% | 5,605 | 0 |
| University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation Trust | Midlands | 14.5 weeks | 43.9 weeks | 57.9% | 7,772 | 222 |
| University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust | South West | 14.7 weeks | 42.5 weeks | 57.7% | 3,196 | 82 |
| Medway NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 14.7 weeks | 33.2 weeks | 59.5% | 4,054 | 0 |
| University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust | Midlands | 14.8 weeks | 39.4 weeks | 58.9% | 9,387 | 138 |
| North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 14.8 weeks | 40.4 weeks | 57.7% | 3,068 | 62 |
| Airedale NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 14.8 weeks | 38.6 weeks | 60.7% | 1,722 | 7 |
| Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 15.0 weeks | 44.8 weeks | 57.7% | 4,675 | 156 |
| East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 15.0 weeks | 40.1 weeks | 58.0% | 8,587 | 52 |
| East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust | North West | 15.2 weeks | 39.2 weeks | 57.9% | 6,789 | 154 |
| Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | South West | 15.3 weeks | 41.8 weeks | 56.7% | 3,847 | 72 |
| Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 15.3 weeks | 47.9 weeks | 57.7% | 9,989 | 544 |
| Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 15.3 weeks | 44.5 weeks | 58.8% | 2,626 | 81 |
| Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 15.4 weeks | 47.1 weeks | 56.5% | 7,328 | 339 |
| Lewisham And Greenwich NHS Trust | London | 15.5 weeks | 42.6 weeks | 57.8% | 7,887 | 97 |
| Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 15.8 weeks | 48.8 weeks | 55.4% | 5,530 | 330 |
| Ashford And St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 15.9 weeks | 38.7 weeks | 55.7% | 3,586 | 13 |
| East Cheshire NHS Trust | North West | 15.9 weeks | 45.8 weeks | 55.4% | 2,196 | 65 |
| The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | Midlands | 16.1 weeks | 47.4 weeks | 55.1% | 5,983 | 295 |
| Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 16.2 weeks | 45.4 weeks | 54.7% | 1,794 | 25 |
| West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 16.3 weeks | 46.6 weeks | 53.7% | 3,165 | 132 |
| North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 16.3 weeks | 42.7 weeks | 54.5% | 6,333 | 70 |
| Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 16.3 weeks | 40.7 weeks | 54.3% | 18,438 | 146 |
| University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 16.3 weeks | 48.3 weeks | 53.7% | 10,547 | 501 |
| Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | Midlands | 16.4 weeks | 51.2 weeks | 54.4% | 7,979 | 595 |
| Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | South West | 16.4 weeks | 39.8 weeks | 54.3% | 3,647 | 44 |
| University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust | South West | 16.6 weeks | 45.6 weeks | 53.2% | 6,639 | 129 |
| United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Midlands | 16.6 weeks | 42.8 weeks | 53.8% | 6,235 | 56 |
| University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust | South East | 16.6 weeks | 50.5 weeks | 52.7% | 4,276 | 293 |
| Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust | South East | 16.7 weeks | 45.9 weeks | 52.6% | 4,927 | 181 |
| Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 17.1 weeks | 45.7 weeks | 52.7% | 3,967 | 173 |
| St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | London | 17.1 weeks | 43.5 weeks | 52.2% | 4,316 | 88 |
| Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 17.2 weeks | 46.8 weeks | 51.9% | 15,104 | 574 |
| Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust | London | 17.3 weeks | 43.2 weeks | 51.7% | 7,087 | 54 |
| North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 17.5 weeks | 49.8 weeks | 51.0% | 3,846 | 216 |
| York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 17.8 weeks | 41.1 weeks | 50.5% | 3,567 | 16 |
| University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | London | 17.9 weeks | 51.3 weeks | 50.2% | 5,992 | 441 |
| Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | South East | 17.9 weeks | 41.8 weeks | 50.1% | 3,801 | 22 |
| Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | North East and Yorkshire | 18.2 weeks | 48.8 weeks | 49.7% | 6,595 | 364 |
| East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | South East | 18.3 weeks | 43.5 weeks | 49.3% | 5,264 | 81 |
| Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | East of England | 18.4 weeks | 48.6 weeks | 49.3% | 4,511 | 233 |
| University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS Trust | Midlands | 18.4 weeks | 46.5 weeks | 49.0% | 6,890 | 242 |
| Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 18.6 weeks | 44.6 weeks | 48.8% | 3,309 | 47 |
| Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | London | 19.0 weeks | 49.7 weeks | 47.8% | 6,028 | 375 |
| Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | North West | 19.2 weeks | 55.9 weeks | 48.0% | 3,159 | 410 |
| Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust | Midlands | 19.7 weeks | 43.6 weeks | 45.9% | 3,731 | 26 |
| The Christie NHS Foundation Trustnot ranked | North West | 5.9 weeks | 16.5 weeks | 94.1% | 51 | 0 |
| Shropshire Community Health NHS Trustnot ranked | Midlands | 11.7 weeks | 27.8 weeks | 74.2% | 93 | 0 |
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.
Corrections: email hello@finallyseen.org.uk. We answer methodology questions on the record and will share the underlying file.
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- This edition, frozen:
- https://finallyseen.org.uk/waits/gynaecology/2026-05
- Always-current page:
- https://finallyseen.org.uk/waits/gynaecology
- Data, no sign-up and no email required:
- CSV and JSON
- These files hold whichever edition is current, and contain gynaecology rows only: 199 provider rows, one per provider, so a median computed straight from the file is a gynaecology median. The complete file we ingest, covering four treatment functions, is at https://finallyseen.org.uk/waits/all-specialties. To cite a figure that will not move, use the frozen edition files at https://finallyseen.org.uk/waits/gynaecology/2026-05.csv and https://finallyseen.org.uk/waits/gynaecology/2026-05.json.
- Original publication:
- NHS England file, published 9 July 2026
Source: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Our own presentation of it, including the table, the methodology and the wording, is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Reuse it, including commercially, with a credit and a link.
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
NHS England publishes these figures monthly, roughly six weeks after the end of the reporting month. The newest edition we hold is May 2026. We expect the June 2026 edition to appear on that rhythm, and we check the NHS England landing page for it rather than promising a date we do not control. If this page still shows the May 2026 edition more than about eight weeks after the end of May 2026, treat it as unverified rather than current and email hello@finallyseen.org.uk. Frozen editions never change and carry no verify-by date: they are the record of what was published that month.
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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. https://finallyseen.org.uk/waits/gynaecology
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