NHS waiting times · Cardiothoracic surgery

Cardiothoracic surgery NHS waiting times by hospital

The typical NHS wait for cardiothoracic surgery is about 10 weeks: half of patients wait less, half longer. It varies a lot by hospital.

Cardiothoracic surgery operates on the heart, lungs and chest, for example heart bypass and valve surgery.

Updated July 2026 · NHS RTT data

We do not yet build a dashboard for Cardiothoracic surgery. The NHS waiting times below are the fullest picture we have: find your hospital and see where the wait is shortest.

Trust

Typical wait

1 in 5 wait longer than

#1University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

4 wks

17 wks

#2South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

5 wks

15 wks

#3Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

6 wks

18 wks

#4Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

6 wks

16 wks

#5University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

7 wks

17 wks

#6St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

8 wks

14 wks

#7Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

8 wks

25 wks

#8University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS Trust

8 wks

22 wks

#9University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust

9 wks

27 wks

#10Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

10 wks

30 wks

#11Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

10 wks

23 wks

#12University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

12 wks

26 wks

#13Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

14 wks

25 wks

#14Liverpool Heart And Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

15 wks

36 wks

#15Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

16 wks

23 wks

#16Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

19 wks

28 wks

#17King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

19 wks

38 wks

Method & source

These are the waits for patients admitted for treatment (the admitted completed RTT pathway). Ranked fastest first by median wait for the cardiothoracic surgery pathway (NHS treatment function C_170), NHS England Referral to Treatment (RTT), July 2026. The typical wait is the median: half of patients waited less, half waited longer. Trusts with fewer than 30 patients on the pathway are excluded from the ranking (7 excluded this month), too few to rank one hospital against another reliably. 17 trusts are ranked. A longer wait does not mean worse care: it can reflect a more complex caseload or a regional specialist centre.

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