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Heavy periods NHS waiting times by trust

Heavy periods is done by gynaecology, where the typical NHS wait is about 17 weeks: half of patients wait less, half longer. It varies a lot by hospital.

This is the wait for the whole gynaecology specialty, not heavy periods 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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TrustLocationTypical wait
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham4 weeks
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNewcastle upon Tyne4 weeks
East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustHastings5 weeks
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustNorth Northamptonshire5 weeks
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWandsworth6 weeks
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLambeth6 weeks
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustCheshire West and Chester6 weeks
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS TrustCoventry6 weeks
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustTameside6 weeks
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustKirklees7 weeks
Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustWestminster7 weeks
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford7 weeks
Bolton NHS Foundation TrustBolton7 weeks
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustReading7 weeks
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow7 weeks
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustReigate and Banstead7 weeks
The Christie NHS Foundation TrustManchester7 weeks
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheshire East8 weeks
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation TrustNorth Yorkshire8 weeks
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustHackney8 weeks
North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustPeterborough8 weeks
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth Tyneside8 weeks
Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustCamden8 weeks
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation TrustKingston upon Thames9 weeks
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham9 weeks
West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustWest Suffolk10 weeks
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCamden10 weeks
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustMaidstone10 weeks
Whittington Health NHS TrustIslington10 weeks
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustSandwell11 weeks
Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustSurrey Heath11 weeks
Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustWest Northamptonshire12 weeks
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustHillingdon12 weeks
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBlackpool12 weeks
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage12 weeks
East Cheshire NHS TrustCheshire East13 weeks
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston13 weeks
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDoncaster13 weeks
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustWarwick13 weeks
George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustNuneaton and Bedworth14 weeks
Airedale NHS Foundation TrustBradford14 weeks
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBradford14 weeks
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLuton14 weeks
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustPortsmouth14 weeks
Bristol NHS Foundation TrustBristol, City of15 weeks
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustCanterbury15 weeks
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustDudley15 weeks
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation TrustDorset15 weeks
Isle of Wight NHS TrustIsle of Wight15 weeks
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustGateshead16 weeks
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustWorthing16 weeks
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS TrustShropshire16 weeks
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustHartlepool16 weeks
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSunderland17 weeks
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustBuckinghamshire17 weeks
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNottingham17 weeks
Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustManchester17 weeks
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole17 weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustWiltshire18 weeks
Croydon Health Services NHS TrustCroydon18 weeks
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustBath and North East Somerset18 weeks
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustExeter18 weeks
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMiddlesbrough18 weeks
Wye Valley NHS TrustHerefordshire, County of18 weeks
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGreat Yarmouth19 weeks
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLincoln19 weeks
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes19 weeks
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustOxford19 weeks
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustWestmorland and Furness20 weeks
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustGuildford20 weeks
Medway NHS Foundation TrustMedway20 weeks
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustKingston upon Hull, City of20 weeks
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLeeds21 weeks
Somerset NHS Foundation TrustSomerset21 weeks
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKensington and Chelsea21 weeks
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustKnowsley22 weeks
Stockport NHS Foundation TrustStockport22 weeks
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustWakefield23 weeks
London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustBrent23 weeks
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke and Deane24 weeks
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWigan24 weeks
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton24 weeks
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustWirral24 weeks
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation TrustSouthend-on-Sea24 weeks
Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustWalsall25 weeks
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustKing's Lynn and West Norfolk25 weeks
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation TrustNorth East Lincolnshire26 weeks
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool26 weeks
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge26 weeks
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustRunnymede26 weeks
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustYork27 weeks
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBarnsley27 weeks
The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustRotherham27 weeks
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLambeth29 weeks
Barts Health NHS TrustTower Hamlets29 weeks
Dartford and Gravesham NHS TrustDartford29 weeks
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustBlackburn with Darwen30 weeks
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustSalford30 weeks
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustCornwall31 weeks
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustSutton31 weeks
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS TrustStoke-on-Trent32 weeks
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington32 weeks
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS TrustLewisham32 weeks
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAshfield33 weeks
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSwindon34 weeks
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustWolverhampton35 weeks
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation TrustDerby35 weeks
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheltenham36 weeks
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustWorcester38 weeks
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustHavering38 weeks
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation TrustWarrington41 weeks
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustLeicester45 weeks
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation TrustColchester45 weeks
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield45 weeks
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth Norfolk53 weeks
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCumberland62 weeks

116 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.

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.

About heavy periods

Heavy periods means losing enough blood that it interferes with your life. Signs include soaking through a pad or tampon every hour or two, needing double protection, bleeding through to your clothes or bedding, passing clots bigger than a 10p coin, or bleeding for more than seven days.

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