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NHS waiting times, referral to treatment

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · June 2026

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust had 70,637 incomplete referral-to-treatment pathways on the last day of June 2026 — the 30th-longest waiting list of the 148 NHS trusts that reported that month.

Read from NHS England’s June 2026 full CSV extract, in the vintage we archived on 9 September 2026 as data/nhs-rtt/raw/2026-09-09/2026-06-full-extract.zip.

62.4%

waiting 18 weeks or less

44,100 of 70,637 incomplete pathways, end of June 2026

The NHS constitutional standard is 92%.

62.4% of them had been waiting 18 weeks or less — 44,100 pathways of 70,637. The NHS constitutional standard is 92%.

That share is the 37th-smallest of the 148 NHS trusts that reported June 2026.

1,888 of those pathways had been waiting more than 52 weeks — 2.7% of the list.

That is 10,189 pathways shorter than at the end of June 2025, when it stood at 80,826 — a fall of 12.6%.

The longest lists in June 2026

  1. 19 trusts between
  2. out of 148 NHS trusts reporting incomplete pathways

Incomplete referral-to-treatment pathways at the end of the month, added across every integrated care board that commissioned from the trust. A long list is not by itself a failing: the trusts at the top of this table are among the largest in England, and a bigger trust carries a bigger list.

The smallest shares inside 18 weeks

  1. 26 trusts between
  2. out of 148 NHS trusts with a list to divide

Pathways waiting 18 weeks or less as a share of the trust’s whole list, smallest first. Trusts with no incomplete pathways have no share and are left out of the ranking rather than placed at either end of it.

Every month we hold for Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

MonthIncomplete pathways18 weeks or lessShareOver 52 weeks
Jun 202670,63744,10062.4%1,888
May 202668,30942,77362.6%1,832
Jun 202580,82644,14954.6%3,643

Three months, not the whole record. One month of this extract is eighty megabytes open, so each vintage archives the newest month, the month before it and the same month a year earlier — the periods the claims on this page actually name. Every month back to 2011 is on NHS England’s own site.

What the extract publishes, and what it means

Incomplete pathways70,637
Patient pathways where a referral has started the clock and treatment has not yet started, counted on the last day of the month. One patient can be on more than one pathway. Added here across every commissioner and every treatment function, from the publisher’s Part 2 rows.
Waiting 18 weeks or less44,100
The incomplete pathways in the publisher’s waiting-time bands up to and including “greater than 17 to 18 weeks”. The NHS constitutional standard is that 92% of the list should be inside 18 weeks.
Waiting more than 52 weeks1,888
The incomplete pathways in every band beyond 52 weeks, up to and including the publisher’s open-ended “greater than 104 weeks” band.

These are pathways, not people: one patient waiting for two treatments is counted twice. The clock starts at referral and is still running — a pathway in the “more than 52 weeks” band is someone still waiting after a year, not someone who waited a year and was treated. Pathways the extract records against no identified commissioner are left out, as they are in NHS England’s own provider spreadsheet; these three figures reconcile with that spreadsheet exactly.

That is 1.06% of the 6,693,433 pathways on the lists of all 148 reporting trusts in June 2026.