A&E data for September 2026, published 8 October 2026 · Diagnostics (DM01) data for August 2026, published 8 October 2026 · Referral to treatment (RTT) data for August 2026, published 8 October 2026

Data sources and methods

Every figure on this site comes from official statistics, downloaded automatically from the publisher and processed without manual editing.

Licence

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: NHS England, Public Health Scotland, Welsh Government and Department of Health (Northern Ireland).

Live A&E waits

Live emergency department waits for Northern Ireland come from the nidirect emergency department waiting times page (Northern Ireland Executive; figures supplied by the Health and Social Care Trusts), which is Crown copyright and reusable under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Our server fetches it at most every 10 minutes and shows the source’s own update time. We do not reproduce live figures from NHS trust websites whose terms do not permit reuse; we link to them from the live A&E page.

How towns are matched to trusts

Each town is mapped to the NHS trust (or, outside England, the health board or HSC trust) that runs its nearest major hospital, with a second trust where a town is commonly served by two. Patients can be referred elsewhere, so treat the figures as a guide to local services rather than a prediction for any individual.

Definitions

• A&E 4-hour performance: share of attendances admitted, transferred or discharged within 4 hours of arrival (all types unless stated).
• 12-hour waits: patients waiting more than 12 hours from decision to admit to admission.
• Diagnostics: people on the waiting list at month end, by weeks waited since referral. England and Scotland report 6 weeks; Wales reports 8 weeks; Northern Ireland is quarterly.
• RTT: incomplete pathways at month end; the median is estimated by NHS England from weekly bands.
• ADHD and autism: experimental management information; completeness varies by area.

Missing data

Where a trust did not submit a return or does not provide a service, pages say so rather than estimating. Pages with no figures at all are not offered to search engines.

No RTT figures for August 2026: Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.