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NHS gynaecology waiting times in England, April 2026 data

NHS England published these figures on 11 June 2026. They describe people still waiting for treatment as of 30 April 2026, at 197 providers that reported gynaecology pathways that month: 119 NHS trusts and 78 independent-sector providers, published on separate sheets. Of those, 10 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, April 2026 data

Among the 117 NHS trusts that meet the threshold, the shortest published median gynaecology wait is 5.0 weeks and the longest is 22.4 weeks. That is a spread of 4.5x between the two ends of the same specialty, as of 30 April 2026.

Shortest published median wait, NHS trusts

5.0 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 30 April 2026. NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider

Longest published median wait, NHS trusts

22.4 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 30 April 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 78 independent-sector providers on a separate sheet, covered in their own section below.

As of 30 April 2026. NHS England, Incomplete Pathways by Provider

Waiting 52 weeks or more

10,403

Sum of NHS England's published per-trust counts, across 119 NHS trusts and 542,240 incomplete pathways.

As of 30 April 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 8.1 weeks and their longest is 20.6 weeks, a spread of 2.5x.

The independent-sector range sits above the NHS trust range at both ends. Its shortest published median (8.1 weeks) is longer than the shortest at any NHS trust in the comparison (5.0 weeks), and its longest (20.6 weeks) is longer than the longest at any NHS trust in the comparison (22.4 weeks). Both sets of figures are specialty averages taken from the same NHS England file, as of 30 April 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 30 April 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, April 2026 data, as of 30 April 2026.
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	5.0 weeks	12.3 weeks	99.0%	1,219	0
Isle Of Wight NHS Trust	South East	6.7 weeks	25.9 weeks	84.9%	868	0
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	7.6 weeks	22.7 weeks	86.7%	3,438	34
South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	8.2 weeks	22.0 weeks	83.4%	2,903	0
Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	8.3 weeks	32.5 weeks	70.3%	2,589	0
Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	London	8.6 weeks	22.7 weeks	87.1%	6,895	0
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	London	8.6 weeks	29.6 weeks	78.7%	4,130	20
Harrogate And District NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	8.7 weeks	27.1 weeks	76.9%	1,402	0
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust	South West	9.1 weeks	30.7 weeks	76.4%	2,723	2
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust	Midlands	9.3 weeks	30.5 weeks	75.8%	2,388	0
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust	South East	9.6 weeks	38.8 weeks	70.3%	3,853	38
Kingston And Richmond NHS Foundation Trust	London	9.7 weeks	33.1 weeks	71.9%	4,118	35
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	London	9.9 weeks	32.8 weeks	71.2%	6,437	2
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	East of England	10.0 weeks	43.0 weeks	66.6%	3,201	101
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	South East	10.0 weeks	24.3 weeks	80.1%	2,769	6
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	10.1 weeks	28.3 weeks	73.3%	2,784	1
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust	London	10.3 weeks	34.6 weeks	69.3%	2,977	39
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	10.3 weeks	29.2 weeks	74.8%	3,928	0
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	South East	10.5 weeks	39.4 weeks	67.7%	3,910	72
Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	South East	10.5 weeks	27.8 weeks	71.8%	4,872	0
University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust	North West	10.5 weeks	38.5 weeks	69.1%	2,446	47
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	South West	10.7 weeks	33.4 weeks	68.4%	4,144	0
Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	10.7 weeks	30.7 weeks	72.0%	3,121	0
North Bristol NHS Trust	South West	11.0 weeks	34.3 weeks	69.3%	4,765	6
Barts Health NHS Trust	London	11.2 weeks	35.0 weeks	69.1%	8,789	18
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	East of England	11.2 weeks	43.5 weeks	67.3%	2,372	41
East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust	East of England	11.2 weeks	31.9 weeks	71.2%	4,233	1
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	South West	11.3 weeks	36.7 weeks	66.0%	3,210	23
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	11.3 weeks	33.9 weeks	67.0%	5,922	7
Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	North West	11.7 weeks	37.9 weeks	64.0%	2,909	64
Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	North West	11.8 weeks	37.0 weeks	68.4%	5,520	64
University Hospitals Of North Midlands NHS Trust	Midlands	11.8 weeks	45.0 weeks	61.6%	4,831	223
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	South West	11.8 weeks	36.5 weeks	65.7%	2,583	3
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Midlands	11.9 weeks	34.2 weeks	63.8%	2,581	2
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	11.9 weeks	42.6 weeks	64.0%	3,532	88
County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	11.9 weeks	38.9 weeks	65.2%	4,582	95
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	11.9 weeks	39.6 weeks	68.5%	2,161	17
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	Midlands	11.9 weeks	35.0 weeks	64.7%	8,325	0
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	South West	12.0 weeks	40.3 weeks	65.0%	1,292	13
North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation Trust	North West	12.0 weeks	38.2 weeks	66.7%	3,397	23
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	North East and Yorkshire	12.2 weeks	38.7 weeks	63.4%	9,673	19
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	South West	12.2 weeks	40.8 weeks	61.0%	5,028	73
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust	South East	12.2 weeks	36.0 weeks	63.8%	2,174	23
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust	Midlands	12.3 weeks	35.5 weeks	62.7%	2,680	6
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust	London	12.3 weeks	38.1 weeks	65.1%	5,652	45
Whittington Health NHS Trust	London	12.4 weeks	37.4 weeks	61.2%	2,999	14
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	London	12.4 weeks	41.2 weeks	63.5%	8,514	164
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	12.6 weeks	37.0 weeks	62.9%	1,543	20
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	12.6 weeks	37.8 weeks	64.9%	2,896	25
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Midlands	12.8 weeks	44.8 weeks	60.3%	2,579	100
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust	Midlands	12.8 weeks	38.5 weeks	60.7%	3,367	3
Wye Valley NHS Trust	Midlands	12.9 weeks	40.3 weeks	59.5%	1,985	7
University Hospitals Bristol And Weston NHS Foundation Trust	South West	12.9 weeks	40.3 weeks	61.5%	3,467	43
Tameside And Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	North West	12.9 weeks	29.9 weeks	62.4%	1,972	0
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	Midlands	13.0 weeks	36.0 weeks	63.6%	1,749	13
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	North West	13.0 weeks	38.4 weeks	60.2%	2,837	10
The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS Trust	Midlands	13.1 weeks	34.8 weeks	61.8%	4,444	0
Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	South East	13.1 weeks	37.8 weeks	62.8%	3,518	4
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust	North East and Yorkshire	13.2 weeks	41.0 weeks	60.4%	5,714	107
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	North West	13.2 weeks	45.6 weeks	60.7%	2,305	99
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Midlands	13.3 weeks	45.1 weeks	58.8%	3,163	95
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust	South East	13.3 weeks	36.9 weeks	60.0%	6,202	19
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	13.3 weeks	31.5 weeks	63.2%	2,005	0
Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	13.4 weeks	43.0 weeks	59.1%	4,665	129
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	13.4 weeks	40.5 weeks	59.6%	1,762	1
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	London	13.5 weeks	36.5 weeks	61.0%	8,115	64
Medway NHS Foundation Trust	South East	13.7 weeks	31.8 weeks	59.5%	3,991	0
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust	North West	13.8 weeks	43.2 weeks	59.2%	10,327	288
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	13.8 weeks	46.6 weeks	58.5%	2,199	94
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	North West	13.9 weeks	40.0 weeks	58.0%	2,999	42
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	Midlands	13.9 weeks	34.0 weeks	59.0%	5,695	0
Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	Midlands	13.9 weeks	38.1 weeks	59.6%	5,069	27
Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	London	13.9 weeks	38.6 weeks	59.8%	6,087	69
East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	14.1 weeks	40.5 weeks	57.0%	8,483	71
Dartford And Gravesham NHS Trust	South East	14.1 weeks	43.4 weeks	57.1%	4,525	47
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	North West	14.2 weeks	39.9 weeks	57.6%	6,738	174
Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	14.3 weeks	48.4 weeks	56.8%	5,477	323
Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	North West	14.3 weeks	44.8 weeks	58.6%	2,526	101
University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation Trust	Midlands	14.4 weeks	43.1 weeks	55.7%	8,072	196
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust	South West	14.6 weeks	41.9 weeks	56.8%	3,745	73
Lewisham And Greenwich NHS Trust	London	14.7 weeks	41.2 weeks	57.7%	7,856	86
University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust	Midlands	14.7 weeks	39.3 weeks	58.2%	9,217	172
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust	North West	14.7 weeks	47.3 weeks	56.9%	9,723	537
North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	14.8 weeks	41.2 weeks	56.1%	2,900	75
Ashford And St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	South East	14.9 weeks	38.7 weeks	55.0%	3,412	12
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust	South West	15.0 weeks	43.1 weeks	56.5%	3,277	98
Birmingham Women's And Children's NHS Foundation Trust	Midlands	15.1 weeks	39.3 weeks	53.0%	6,087	13
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	15.2 weeks	45.6 weeks	53.9%	3,067	119
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	South East	15.2 weeks	47.0 weeks	55.2%	7,237	289
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust	Midlands	15.2 weeks	47.7 weeks	54.8%	5,742	280
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	15.4 weeks	42.2 weeks	54.7%	6,456	64
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	15.4 weeks	44.6 weeks	55.0%	3,735	148
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Midlands	15.5 weeks	41.9 weeks	54.1%	6,119	33
East Cheshire NHS Trust	North West	15.5 weeks	45.6 weeks	54.5%	2,225	79
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust	South East	15.6 weeks	47.2 weeks	53.1%	10,488	464
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	London	15.8 weeks	42.1 weeks	53.6%	4,270	63
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	North West	15.8 weeks	40.8 weeks	53.7%	18,391	139
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	South West	15.9 weeks	41.7 weeks	52.5%	3,640	60
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust	South West	16.3 weeks	44.4 weeks	52.8%	6,549	81
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	North West	16.5 weeks	44.0 weeks	51.9%	1,893	20
University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS Trust	Midlands	16.6 weeks	44.3 weeks	51.8%	6,808	212
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	Midlands	16.8 weeks	49.5 weeks	52.1%	8,486	506
Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	London	17.0 weeks	41.0 weeks	51.1%	6,862	24
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust	South East	17.1 weeks	50.4 weeks	50.8%	4,159	280
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust	South East	17.3 weeks	42.7 weeks	50.8%	3,809	19
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust	South East	17.4 weeks	46.3 weeks	50.6%	5,016	191
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	17.5 weeks	48.9 weeks	50.5%	3,792	224
York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	North East and Yorkshire	17.8 weeks	39.8 weeks	50.2%	3,523	11
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	London	18.4 weeks	50.7 weeks	49.2%	5,878	414
Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	18.5 weeks	46.8 weeks	49.1%	14,529	545
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	North East and Yorkshire	18.6 weeks	49.4 weeks	48.9%	6,398	395
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust	North West	18.7 weeks	43.9 weeks	48.5%	3,213	49
Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust	London	18.9 weeks	48.8 weeks	48.9%	6,321	368
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	South East	19.0 weeks	41.6 weeks	47.5%	5,165	91
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	East of England	19.3 weeks	47.8 weeks	47.4%	4,462	213
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	North West	21.3 weeks	54.9 weeks	45.6%	2,950	327
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	Midlands	22.4 weeks	44.3 weeks	39.4%	3,385	29
The Christie NHS Foundation Trustnot ranked	North West	6.5 weeks	14.0 weeks	97.3%	37	0
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trustnot ranked	Midlands	10.3 weeks	26.4 weeks	71.8%	103	0

Waits of 52 weeks or more

Across the 119 reporting NHS trusts, NHS England published 10,403 gynaecology pathways where the person had been waiting a year or longer as of 30 April 2026. The ten largest published counts:

Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation Trust545
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust537
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust506
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust464
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust414
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust395
Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust368
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust327
Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust323
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust289

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, April 2026 data, published 11 June 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, 78 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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This edition, frozen:: https://finallyseen.org.uk/waits/gynaecology/2026-04
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Data, no sign-up and no email required:: CSV and JSON; These files hold the frozen April 2026 rows and will not change. They contain gynaecology rows only: 197 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. The always-current gynaecology files are at https://finallyseen.org.uk/waits/gynaecology.csv and https://finallyseen.org.uk/waits/gynaecology.json.
Original publication:: NHS England file, published 11 June 2026

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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NHS England gynaecology waiting times, April 2026 data, as of 30 April 2026.

119 NHS trusts reported gynaecology pathways.

Among NHS trusts: shortest published median wait 5.0 weeks at The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, longest 22.4 weeks at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. That is a spread of 4.5x.

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 8.1 weeks, longest 20.6 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: 197 providers reported this specialty. 10 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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NHS gynaecology waiting times in England, April 2026 data

The range across NHS trusts, April 2026 data

The independent sector, on the same measure

Every reporting NHS trust

Waits of 52 weeks or more

Diagnostic delay is a different measurement

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