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Peterborough City Hospital

PO Box 404, Peterborough, PE3 9GZ · Run by North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

CQC: Requires improvement

CQC rating published 16 April 2025 — this rating applies to this specific location. About CQC ratings

Performance at a glance

Treated or seen within 18 weeks
Trust-wide
60.6%
Better than 14% of trustsData: May 2026
Typical (median) wait
Trust-wide
13.9 wks
Better than 20% of trustsData: May 2026
Patients on the waiting list
Trust-wide
78,208
Data: May 2026
Waiting over a year
Trust-wide
372
Better than 50% of trustsData: May 2026
A&E patients seen within 4 hours
Trust-wide
71.7%
Better than 40% of trustsData: Jun 2026
A&E attendances
Trust-wide
20,569
Data: Jun 2026
12-hour trolley waits
Trust-wide
762
Better than 12% of trustsData: Jun 2026

NHS England publishes waiting-time and A&E figures per trust, not per building — figures marked Trust-wide cover all hospitals run by North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust.

Waiting times by specialty

Trust-wide (North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust) · Data: May 2026 · Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait52+ wks
Cardiology8,80363.2%13.5 wks62
Other - Medicals7,98662.5%13.6 wks21
Ear Nose and Throat7,67754.5%16.4 wks52
Trauma and Orthopaedic6,99655.1%16.2 wks53
Ophthalmology6,42960.2%13.3 wks24
Gynaecology6,33354.5%16.3 wks70
General Surgery6,03362.6%13.5 wks47
Gastroenterology5,87261.7%12.7 wks3
Urology5,27769.0%11.5 wks7
Dermatology4,89462.3%13.1 wks7
Oral Surgery2,82549.5%18.2 wks17
Other - Surgicals1,61871.4%9.9 wks2
Neurology1,59151.7%16.9 wks0
Plastic Surgery1,46561.2%13.0 wks6
Respiratory Medicine1,28776.5%7.7 wks1
Rheumatology1,24868.3%12.6 wks0
Other - Paediatrics82670.1%11.4 wks0
Other - Others56248.2%18.8 wks0
Elderly Medicine37476.2%8.1 wks0
General Internal Medicine112100.0%8.0 wks0

About this data

Every figure on this page comes from an official publication: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics, NHS England A&E statistics, and the Care Quality Commission directory. Data periods are shown against each figure — NHS England publishes with a lag of around six weeks. Read the full methodology.