How do I check NHS waiting times for my hospital?

In England, the NHS My Planned Care website shows average waits for each hospital and specialty, updated regularly. The full RTT data from NHS England breaks waits down by trust and treatment specialty if you want the official numbers behind it.

In Scotland, Public Health Scotland publishes waits by health board; in Wales, waiting times are on StatsWales; in Northern Ireland, the Department of Health publishes them.

Official sources: My Planned Care · NHS England RTT waiting times

The latest figure

The newest value is at NHS England. More on it: NHS waiting list (England).

When is the next figure out?

Monthly, usually the second Thursday of the month at 9:30am, covering the month two months earlier. No API: data are .xlsx/.csv files with changing file names on the NHS England statistics pages, which return a bot challenge (HTTP 202) to scripts; the GOV.UK statistics announcement page for each release is reachable and can be used to detect a new release

Every official release due in the next two weeks is on the release calendar.

Terms used in this answer

• Referral to treatment (RTT)
  The waiting time measure for planned hospital care in England: the time from referral to the start of consultant-led treatment. The NHS standard is 18 weeks.
• Median
  The middle value when all values are ordered from lowest to highest. Half are above and half below, so a few very large values cannot pull it up.
• Headcount
  A count of individual people, each counted once regardless of how many hours they work or how many posts they hold.
• Provisional figures
  Early estimates published before all data are in, so users get timely figures. They are expected to be updated when later data arrive.
• Administrative data
  Information collected by organisations while running a service, such as tax records, benefit claims or hospital activity, and then used to produce statistics.

Where the figures come from

• NHS England statistics and NHS England Digital (formerly NHS Digital)
  Where to find official NHS England figures on RTT waiting lists, A&E four-hour waits, cancer and ambulance times, diagnostics, GP numbers and appointments.

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