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Neurosurgical: waiting times

NHS England’s August 2026 figures for Neurosurgical: 54,748 patients in England were still waiting to start consultant-led treatment at the end of the month across 60 providers that reported it; 62.0% had been waiting 18 weeks or less and 806 more than 52 weeks.

54,748patients still waiting to start consultant-led treatment at the end of the month for this specialty in England
62.0%of them had been waiting 18 weeks or less
806had been waiting more than 52 weeks

England figures are the sum of what providers submitted. Source: NHS England, Consultant-led Referral to Treatment Waiting Times Data, August 2026 ("Full CSV data file", incomplete pathways). Imported by Docorix on 31 October 2026. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Information from NHS England. Source pages last checked 31 October 2026.

Every provider that reports Neurosurgical

Listed A to Z. You can re-order the table by any column, but Docorix does not rank providers: trusts differ in size, in the patients they treat and in the cases they take, so a larger or smaller number is not by itself better or worse. 13 providers with fewer than 10 pathways in this specialty are not listed. – means fewer than 50 pathways, too few for a percentage to mean much.

The integrated care board is the “Provider Parent” organisation in NHS England’s file; it is not always the board for the area where a provider’s sites are.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust2,09667.9%27
Barts Health NHS Trust1,44149.7%25
Beardwood Hospital6747.8%0
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust1,23276.8%0
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2,26364.9%31
Claremont Private Hospital40556.8%4
Dorking Healthcare Limited (Dhc)6586.2%0
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust3,87059.9%109
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust3,01855.9%2
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2,77965.4%23
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3,62662.4%0
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust56665.7%31
London Independent Hospital16–0
Meriden Hospital20394.1%0
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust39–1
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust5234.6%6
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust4,22551.7%139
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust1,14874.7%10
Nuffield Health, Brentwood Hospital21657.9%5
Nuffield Health, Cambridge Hospital24–0
Nuffield Health, Plymouth Hospital15649.4%1
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1,12274.3%2
Pioneer Healthcare Limited10638.7%27
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1,03376.1%7
Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital29–0
Spire Fylde Coast Hospital47–0
Spire Hull and East Riding Hospital17070.0%0
Spire London East35230.7%11
Spire Methley Park Hospital19–0
Spire Regency Hospital34–0
Spire St Anthony's Hospital30–0
Spire Washington Hospital8374.7%0
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust4,08758.7%12
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1,47069.2%25
The One Health Group plc2,29381.9%16
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust3,65763.4%60
Thornbury Hospital10–0
Three Shires Hospital8291.5%1
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3,57861.9%52
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust1,11169.8%8
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust1,99455.7%0
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust4,39453.7%155
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust19256.8%0
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust16048.8%2
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust61158.6%9
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust53658.8%5
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10–0

How to read these figures

NHS England counts incomplete pathways: in its words, “waiting times for cases where patients are still waiting to start treatment at the end of the month”. Each pathway runs from a referral for consultant-led care to the start of treatment, so one patient can appear more than once if they are waiting for more than one thing. NHS.uk gives “18 weeks” as the maximum waiting time for non-urgent, consultant-led treatment (NHS.uk guide to waiting times).

These are figures about the waiting list, not a forecast of how long a new patient will wait, and they do not cover urgent or cancer care, which NHS England reports separately. A trust’s waiting times can differ widely between specialties, so the specialty tables are usually more useful than the totals. Trusts are listed A to Z; Docorix does not rank them, because trusts differ in size, in the specialties they offer and in the patients they treat. Ask your GP or use the NHS e-Referral Service to see which hospitals can see you and how long each is currently taking.

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