NHS waiting times · Elderly medicine

Elderly medicine NHS waiting times by hospital

The typical NHS wait for elderly medicine is about 7 weeks: half of patients wait less, half longer. It varies a lot by hospital.

Elderly medicine cares for older people with complex or several health conditions at once.

Updated July 2026 · NHS RTT data

We do not yet build a dashboard for Elderly medicine. 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

#1Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

1 wks

#2South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

1 wks

#3Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

1 wks

3 wks

#4University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS Trust

2 wks

9 wks

#5South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

2 wks

13 wks

#6Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

2 wks

6 wks

#7Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

3 wks

9 wks

#8Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

3 wks

5 wks

#9Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

4 wks

7 wks

#10London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

4 wks

7 wks

#11Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

4 wks

17 wks

#12University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

4 wks

24 wks

#13Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

4 wks

11 wks

#14Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

4 wks

14 wks

#15York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

4 wks

11 wks

#16The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

5 wks

9 wks

#17Medway NHS Foundation Trust

5 wks

10 wks

#18Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

5 wks

12 wks

#19St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

5 wks

6 wks

#20The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

5 wks

10 wks

#21Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

5 wks

12 wks

#22Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

5 wks

7 wks

#23Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

5 wks

10 wks

#24Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

6 wks

11 wks

#25Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

6 wks

15 wks

#26Whittington Health NHS Trust

6 wks

12 wks

#27Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

6 wks

12 wks

#28Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

6 wks

9 wks

#29University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

6 wks

16 wks

#30Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

6 wks

11 wks

#31Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

6 wks

16 wks

#32Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

6 wks

12 wks

#33University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust

6 wks

21 wks

#34Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

6 wks

13 wks

#35Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

7 wks

11 wks

#36University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

7 wks

18 wks

#37Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

7 wks

10 wks

#38The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

7 wks

13 wks

#39Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

7 wks

14 wks

#40Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

7 wks

11 wks

#41East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

7 wks

14 wks

#42East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

7 wks

13 wks

#43East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

7 wks

9 wks

#44King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

7 wks

16 wks

#45Lewisham And Greenwich NHS Trust

8 wks

14 wks

#46Barts Health NHS Trust

8 wks

17 wks

#47University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust

8 wks

15 wks

#48Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

8 wks

15 wks

#49Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

8 wks

18 wks

#50Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

8 wks

24 wks

#51Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

8 wks

33 wks

#52North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

9 wks

21 wks

#53Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

9 wks

10 wks

#54Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

9 wks

20 wks

#55Dartford And Gravesham NHS Trust

9 wks

21 wks

#56University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation Trust

9 wks

16 wks

#57University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

9 wks

16 wks

#58Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation Trust

9 wks

18 wks

#59East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

9 wks

17 wks

#60Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

10 wks

22 wks

#61North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

10 wks

17 wks

#62Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

10 wks

15 wks

#63East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

11 wks

19 wks

#64Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

11 wks

18 wks

#65Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

11 wks

17 wks

#66The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

12 wks

19 wks

#67Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

12 wks

25 wks

#68County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

12 wks

18 wks

#69Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust

12 wks

17 wks

#70The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS Trust

12 wks

17 wks

#71Ashford And St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

13 wks

26 wks

#72Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

13 wks

18 wks

#73Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

16 wks

31 wks

#74North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation Trust

17 wks

33 wks

#75North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

19 wks

23 wks

#76Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

20 wks

23 wks

#77Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

24 wks

26 wks

#78Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

27 wks

36 wks

#79Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

30 wks

40 wks

#80United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

33 wks

40 wks

#81Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

57 wks

69 wks

Method & source

These are the waits for patients treated in clinic (the non-admitted completed RTT pathway), the right measure for a mainly outpatient specialty, where very few patients are admitted for treatment. Ranked fastest first by median wait for the elderly medicine pathway (NHS treatment function C_430), 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 (32 excluded this month), too few to rank one hospital against another reliably. 81 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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