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Compare hospitals for cardiology

Every NHS trust in England that reports cardiology, compared side by side. Waiting-list figures are for incomplete pathways (people still waiting to start treatment).

The best hospital depends on what matters most to you — a shorter wait, a better outcome, or a shorter journey. Sort by each to compare.

119 trusts. Data: July 2026. Source: NHS England RTT statistics. CQC inspection ratings aren't shown here — see each trust's profile page, linked from every row.

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#TrustMedian waitWithin 18 wks
1Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLeeds4.9 wks95.6%
2United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLincoln5.5 wks91.2%
3Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustWakefield5.7 wks92.3%
4University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustKendal5.8 wks86.5%
5Tameside And Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustAshton-Under-Lyne6.3 wks94.6%
6East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustBlackburn6.5 wks92.2%
7Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBarnsley6.6 wks95.8%
8North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustHartlepool6.7 wks83.5%
9Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth Shields6.8 wks97.1%
10Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustRedhill7.0 wks89.2%
11County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington7.0 wks85.7%
12South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSunderland7.1 wks85.6%
13Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChester7.2 wks81.0%
14The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustDudley7.3 wks86.5%
15Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustWalsall7.5 wks94.6%
16East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage7.6 wks95.5%
17Hampshire And Isle Of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton7.6 wks93.6%
18University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham7.9 wks87.5%
19Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustWorcester8.0 wks84.4%
20Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKettering8.1 wks83.4%
21South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustWarwick8.1 wks92.9%
22Liverpool Heart And Chest Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool8.3 wks81.3%
23Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon8.3 wks94.9%
24Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNottingham8.5 wks81.2%
25Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustHuddersfield8.6 wks82.7%
26Croydon Health Services NHS TrustThornton Heath8.6 wks79.3%
27The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustRotherham8.8 wks83.0%
28Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDoncaster8.9 wks82.8%
29Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes9.5 wks78.9%
30Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustCamberley9.6 wks70.5%
31George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustNuneaton9.7 wks80.3%
32University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon9.7 wks73.4%
33Barts Health NHS TrustLondon9.8 wks77.6%
34East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation TrustColchester9.9 wks72.2%
35The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNewcastle Upon Tyne9.9 wks77.2%
36University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustPoole10.0 wks80.8%
37North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation TrustWarrington10.0 wks77.0%
38Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustPortsmouth10.1 wks73.8%
39Somerset NHS Foundation TrustTaunton10.1 wks74.9%
40Airedale NHS Foundation TrustKeighley10.1 wks75.4%
41West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustBury St. Edmunds10.1 wks80.0%
42Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustMaidstone10.2 wks83.0%
43Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCrewe10.2 wks76.0%
44Whittington Health NHS TrustLondon10.2 wks76.7%
45Shropshire Community Health NHS TrustShrewsbury10.3 wks72.4%
46West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford10.4 wks76.9%
47Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield10.4 wks74.1%
48Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustReading10.5 wks85.3%
49Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation TrustGrimsby10.6 wks71.2%
50Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustWirral10.6 wks76.0%
51University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton10.8 wks70.2%
52Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustRomford10.9 wks76.0%
53University Hospitals Of North Midlands NHS TrustStoke-On-Trent11.1 wks64.1%
54South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMiddlesbrough11.1 wks75.1%
55University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS TrustCoventry11.1 wks75.0%
56Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSwindon11.1 wks69.2%
57Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBradford11.1 wks74.7%
58Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustOxford11.2 wks68.1%
59Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustPrescot11.2 wks76.0%
60Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheltenham11.3 wks75.6%
61The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS TrustShrewsbury11.4 wks71.7%
62Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool11.5 wks70.0%
63Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustTruro11.5 wks63.9%
64Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustSalford11.6 wks67.6%
65University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation TrustDerby11.6 wks68.8%
66Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston11.6 wks67.6%
67The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustKing's Lynn11.7 wks65.8%
68Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustGuildford11.8 wks63.0%
69University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS TrustLeicester11.9 wks66.4%
70Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustGateshead11.9 wks68.2%
71Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation TrustWestcliff-On-Sea12.0 wks67.6%
72King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon12.0 wks67.6%
73Kingston And Richmond NHS Foundation TrustKingston Upon Thames12.1 wks69.1%
74Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustSalisbury12.2 wks68.0%
75East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustSt. Leonards-On-Sea12.4 wks67.2%
76Lewisham And Greenwich NHS TrustLondon12.4 wks68.8%
77Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustLondon12.5 wks64.9%
78Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustBath12.5 wks68.4%
79London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustHarrow12.6 wks64.7%
80The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow12.6 wks69.1%
81Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWigan12.6 wks64.0%
82Harrogate And District NHS Foundation TrustHarrogate12.6 wks66.0%
83Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustCarshalton12.8 wks62.6%
84Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorwich12.8 wks62.4%
85Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustLondon13.0 wks61.8%
86St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon13.2 wks63.6%
87Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustNorthampton13.4 wks66.1%
88Bristol NHS Foundation TrustBristol13.5 wks61.0%
89Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustManchester13.7 wks61.8%
90Ashford And St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustChertsey13.8 wks63.0%
91Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation TrustCambridge13.8 wks59.7%
92The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustWolverhampton13.9 wks59.6%
93Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSutton-In-Ashfield13.9 wks62.1%
94Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLondon14.0 wks59.2%
95Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustLondon14.0 wks61.4%
96Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustAmersham14.1 wks61.0%
97York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustYork14.2 wks59.9%
98Wye Valley NHS TrustHereford14.2 wks61.6%
99Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation TrustEast Grinstead14.2 wks61.1%
100Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustExeter14.5 wks57.1%
101Stockport NHS Foundation TrustStockport14.6 wks57.6%
102Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLuton14.8 wks59.1%
103North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCarlisle15.0 wks57.0%
104University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustWorthing15.2 wks56.3%
105Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke15.2 wks55.9%
106Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge16.9 wks52.6%
107Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation TrustDorchester17.0 wks51.8%
108James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGreat Yarmouth17.0 wks52.4%
109East Cheshire NHS TrustMacclesfield17.1 wks52.4%
110North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustPeterborough17.2 wks52.3%
111Isle Of Wight NHS TrustNewport17.4 wks51.3%
112East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustCanterbury17.5 wks50.8%
113Medway NHS Foundation TrustGillingham17.7 wks50.9%
114Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBlackpool17.9 wks50.3%
115Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustHull18.2 wks49.6%
116Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustSmethwick18.6 wks49.0%
117Dartford And Gravesham NHS TrustDartford18.9 wks47.7%
118The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustUxbridge19.4 wks46.0%
119Bolton NHS Foundation TrustBolton19.6 wks47.2%

Tip: for planned care you can usually ask to be referred to any trust — one with a higher “% within 18 weeks” may treat you sooner. Your right to choose.

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