NHS waiting times · Cardiology

Heart problems NHS waiting times by trust

Heart problems is done by cardiology, where the typical NHS wait is about 14 weeks: half of patients wait less, half longer. It varies a lot by hospital.

This is the wait for the whole cardiology specialty, not heart problems on its own: the NHS doesn’t publish waits for single procedures.

Updated July 2026 · (Referral to Treatment: the NHS wait-time framework)

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Trust	Location	Typical wait
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust	Stoke-on-Trent	2 weeks
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	Worcester	3 weeks
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	North Tyneside	3 weeks
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	North Northamptonshire	4 weeks
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cheltenham	4 weeks
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Preston	4 weeks
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Wigan	5 weeks
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Lincoln	5 weeks
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Middlesbrough	5 weeks
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	Sunderland	6 weeks
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cheshire East	6 weeks
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	Birmingham	7 weeks
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Dorset	7 weeks
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust	Warwick	7 weeks
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust	Southampton	7 weeks
Whittington Health NHS Trust	Islington	7 weeks
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Leeds	7 weeks
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	Reading	7 weeks
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Kensington and Chelsea	7 weeks
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	Darlington	8 weeks
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Liverpool	8 weeks
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	West Northamptonshire	8 weeks
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust	Wakefield	8 weeks
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	Westminster	9 weeks
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	Kirklees	9 weeks
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Camden	9 weeks
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust	Hartlepool	10 weeks
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	10 weeks
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Liverpool	10 weeks
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust	Stevenage	10 weeks
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Cheshire West and Chester	10 weeks
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Basingstoke and Deane	10 weeks
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust	Westmorland and Furness	10 weeks
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust	Walsall	11 weeks
Wye Valley NHS Trust	Herefordshire, County of	11 weeks
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust	Croydon	11 weeks
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Lambeth	11 weeks
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	Cornwall	11 weeks
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Barnsley	12 weeks
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	Gateshead	12 weeks
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust	Kingston upon Thames	12 weeks
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	York	12 weeks
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust	Surrey Heath	12 weeks
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Newcastle upon Tyne	12 weeks
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	Lambeth	12 weeks
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	Tameside	13 weeks
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Oxford	13 weeks
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust	West Suffolk	13 weeks
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Cambridge	13 weeks
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust	Colchester	13 weeks
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	Reigate and Banstead	13 weeks
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust	Derby	14 weeks
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust	Portsmouth	14 weeks
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	Sutton	14 weeks
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust	Dudley	14 weeks
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Bradford	15 weeks
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust	Bristol, City of	15 weeks
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Luton	15 weeks
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	Leicester	15 weeks
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Chesterfield	15 weeks
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Great Yarmouth	15 weeks
Barts Health NHS Trust	Tower Hamlets	15 weeks
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust	Guildford	15 weeks
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	Nottingham	15 weeks
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	Shropshire	15 weeks
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	Hackney	16 weeks
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	Rotherham	16 weeks
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	Blackburn with Darwen	16 weeks
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust	Bradford	16 weeks
Medway NHS Foundation Trust	Medway	16 weeks
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Knowsley	16 weeks
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	Coventry	16 weeks
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Wirral	17 weeks
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	Nuneaton and Bedworth	17 weeks
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust	Canterbury	17 weeks
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust	Somerset	17 weeks
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Watford	18 weeks
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Kingston upon Hull, City of	18 weeks
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	18 weeks
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Doncaster	18 weeks
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Milton Keynes	18 weeks
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust	Havering	18 weeks
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	South Norfolk	18 weeks
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust	North East Lincolnshire	19 weeks
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Wandsworth	19 weeks
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	Stockport	19 weeks
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust	Lewisham	19 weeks
Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Mid Sussex	19 weeks
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	Manchester	19 weeks
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	Maidstone	19 weeks
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	North Yorkshire	20 weeks
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	Sandwell	20 weeks
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Blackpool	20 weeks
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Swindon	20 weeks
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Runnymede	20 weeks
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	Hastings	20 weeks
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	Exeter	21 weeks
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	Cumberland	21 weeks
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust	Southend-on-Sea	21 weeks
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust	Wolverhampton	22 weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	Wiltshire	22 weeks
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	Camden	22 weeks
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Ashfield	23 weeks
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust	Salford	23 weeks
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust	Bath and North East Somerset	23 weeks
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust	Warrington	24 weeks
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust	Worthing	24 weeks
East Cheshire NHS Trust	Cheshire East	27 weeks
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	Harlow	28 weeks
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust	Bolton	30 weeks
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust	Peterborough	30 weeks
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cambridge	31 weeks
Isle of Wight NHS Trust	Isle of Wight	31 weeks
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust	Brent	32 weeks
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Hillingdon	34 weeks
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	Dartford	36 weeks
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust	Buckinghamshire	41 weeks

117 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for July 2026. We show only acute trusts with a confident sample size, so a small-volume or community service can't distort the ranking. 1 trust was set aside for too few patients to be reliable. 1 non-acute provider was excluded.

Larger trusts run several hospitals, sometimes miles apart. The NHS publishes one wait for the whole trust, not a separate figure per hospital, so the location shown is the trust's main registered site: your care could be at another of its hospitals.

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About heart problems

Heart problems, in the sense this page covers, means symptoms that are being looked into in a planned, non-urgent way, such as palpitations (a fluttering, pounding or irregular heartbeat), a heart murmur, or breathlessness that a GP wants investigated.