Neurosurgery NHS waiting times by hospital
The typical NHS wait for neurosurgery is about 17 weeks: half of patients wait less, half longer. It varies a lot by hospital.
Neurosurgery operates on the brain, spine and nerves, for example for some spinal problems and brain tumours.
Updated July 2026 · NHS RTT data
We do not yet build a dashboard for Neurosurgery. The NHS waiting times below are the fullest picture we have: find your hospital and see where the wait is shortest.
These are the waits for patients admitted for treatment (the admitted completed RTT pathway). Ranked fastest first by median wait for the neurosurgery pathway (NHS treatment function C_150), 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, too few to rank one hospital against another reliably. 22 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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