Observed arrival · 2026-10-28
ShortestWait compares NHS waiting times by hospital and specialty
A public finder lets people compare NHS England waiting-time figures by treatment specialty, hospital and postcode area.
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- People comparing NHS waits for a treatment specialty
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- The page says it uses only the first half of a postcode and does not store it; location is rounded to about 1 km.
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The homepage presents England-wide specialty medians alongside provider-level rankings, with example rows showing provider, waiting-list size, median wait and the share seen within 18 weeks. Its own explanation cautions that a specialty figure does not identify the wait for a particular operation—for example, a knee replacement is counted under orthopaedics. The page links to a monthly change note and an explanation of the data.
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