NHS waiting times – stage of treatment (25 August 2026 release)
Cited on 10 pages
- Health insurance costs where you live: how location shapes price
- How the NHS and private healthcare fit together
- Private health insurance in Birmingham and the Midlands
- Private health insurance in London: hospitals, costs and choices
- Private health insurance in Manchester and the North West
- Private health insurance in Northern Ireland
- Private health insurance in rural areas of the UK
- Private health insurance in Scotland: NHS context and cover
- Private health insurance in Wales: NHS context and cover
- Self-pay healthcare costs explained: paying for treatment directly
Stage of treatment waiting times — new outpatients, inpatients and day cases, 28 July 2026 (data to 30 June 2026)
Cited on 10 pages
- Can you switch from an NHS waiting list to private treatment?
- Does going private affect your NHS care?
- Does health insurance help you skip NHS waiting lists?
- How are NHS referral-to-treatment waiting times counted?
- How do NHS waiting lists actually work?
- How do NHS waiting times differ across the UK?
- How long are NHS waiting times right now?
- What are your rights while waiting for NHS treatment?
- What does private treatment cost when the NHS wait is long?
- What is NHS patient choice and how do you use it?
NHS waiting times — stage of treatment
Cited on 2 pages
More publishers we cite
Publishers cited on the same guides as Public Health Scotland:
- Welsh Government
- Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman
- StatsWales
- Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
- NHS
- Department of Health and Social Care
How we use sources
We prefer the organisation that produced the data, in its own publication, and we date every citation. Our approach is set out in our sources, and the full library is on the research library page.
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