How the NHS is performing
Headline waiting times for England, Guy's and St Thomas' and the Shelford Group of teaching hospitals.
These are the eight headline waiting-time measures NHS England uses to rank hospital trusts, from its public data gateway. Each card compares Guy's and St Thomas' with England as a whole and with the Shelford Group: the ten largest NHS teaching hospital trusts in England, which are fairer peers for a big specialist hospital than the average trust.
A&E patients seen within 4 hours
75.4% at GSTT
- England
- 74.4%
- Shelford median
- 73.7%
- Standard
- 95%
5th of 10 Shelford trusts · 51 of 117 in England (higher is better)
October 2025 to September 2026
A&E patients in the department for 12 hours or more
1.5% at GSTT
- England
- 10.1%
- Shelford median
- 5.7%
- Standard
- No standard
Joint 1st of 10 Shelford trusts · 5 of 117 in England (lower is better)
October 2025 to September 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks for planned treatment
67.7% at GSTT
- England
- 65.2%
- Shelford median
- 66.1%
- Standard
- 92%
3rd of 10 Shelford trusts · 35 of 117 in England (higher is better)
September 2025 to August 2026
Waiting over a year for planned treatment
0.8% at GSTT
- England
- 1.5%
- Shelford median
- 1.0%
- Standard
- None waiting
Joint 3rd of 10 Shelford trusts · 45 of 117 in England (lower is better)
September 2025 to August 2026
Cancer diagnosed or ruled out within 28 days
86.7% at GSTT
- England
- 78.6%
- Shelford median
- 82.9%
- Standard
- 75%
3rd of 10 Shelford trusts · 12 of 117 in England (higher is better)
September 2025 to August 2026
Cancer treatment within 31 days of the decision to treat
88.9% at GSTT
- England
- 92.1%
- Shelford median
- 92.1%
- Standard
- 96%
7th of 10 Shelford trusts · 100 of 117 in England (higher is better)
September 2025 to August 2026
Cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral
65.8% at GSTT
- England
- 71.9%
- Shelford median
- 69.4%
- Standard
- 85%
9th of 10 Shelford trusts · 90 of 117 in England (higher is better)
September 2025 to August 2026
Waiting 6 weeks or more for a diagnostic test
26.3% at GSTT
- England
- 24.7%
- Shelford median
- 24.8%
- Standard
- 1%
8th of 10 Shelford trusts · 83 of 117 in England (lower is better)
September 2025 to August 2026
All ten Shelford trusts
The latest month for each measure. Guy's and St Thomas' is highlighted.
| Trust | A&E 4 hourshigher is better | A&E 12+ hourslower is better | Under 18 weekshigher is better | Over 52 weekslower is better | Cancer 28 dayshigher is better | Cancer 31 dayshigher is better | Cancer 62 dayshigher is better | Tests 6+ weekslower is better |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge University Hospitals | 68.5% | 9.8% | 65.6% | 1.2% | 82.9% | 92.9% | 75.1% | 25.7% |
| Guy's and St Thomas' | 75.4% | 1.5% | 67.7% | 0.8% | 86.7% | 88.9% | 65.8% | 26.3% |
| Imperial College Healthcare | 80.5% | 7.2% | 70.4% | 0.0% | 82.9% | 96.3% | 66.8% | 10.7% |
| King's College Hospital | 70.7% | 11.6% | 66.2% | 2.2% | 78.6% | 95.8% | 72.2% | 19.9% |
| Manchester University | 71.7% | 4.9% | 63.9% | 0.8% | 81.0% | 94.0% | 77.1% | 11.0% |
| Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals | 76.2% | 2.3% | 72.6% | 0.8% | 84.1% | 72.4% | 67.8% | 24.1% |
| Oxford University Hospitals | 82.1% | 1.5% | 62.2% | 1.7% | 82.1% | 74.3% | 66.2% | 21.6% |
| Sheffield Teaching Hospitals | 71.9% | 6.4% | 66.0% | 2.0% | 77.0% | 87.5% | 52.1% | 51.0% |
| University College London Hospitals | 79.4% | 3.6% | 65.5% | 1.1% | 87.8% | 96.1% | 77.4% | 25.5% |
| University Hospitals Birmingham | 69.0% | 13.5% | 66.6% | 0.2% | 87.1% | 91.3% | 71.0% | 41.6% |
| England | 74.4% | 10.1% | 65.2% | 1.5% | 78.6% | 92.1% | 71.9% | 24.7% |
Reading these numbers
- Look at the gaps, not just the positions. With ten trusts, coming 4th rather than 6th can mean a difference of a fraction of a percentage point. The dot strips show how far apart the trusts really are.
- Specialist centres look worse on the 62-day cancer measure. Many of their patients are referred on from other hospitals part-way through their pathway, after much of the 62 days has already passed.
- One month is one data point. These figures move around from month to month, so the 12-month trend lines matter more than any single value. A run of points is what tells you something has really changed.
- The standards are the NHS's long-standing ones. Each year's planning guidance also sets interim targets that are lower than these, so a trust can meet its target and still miss the standard.
- "England" is the national figure shown on NHS England's data gateway. The gateway ranks 117 trusts on each measure. From April 2026, A&E figures cover each acute trust's whole area.
Where these figures come from
All values come from NHS England's public data gateway, using its download for each measure and its page for Guy's and St Thomas', which gives the national rank. The Shelford median is the middle of the ten trusts' values for the same month. The Shelford Group's membership is listed on its website.
A script fetches the latest figures every quarter and updates this page when they change. This is my personal site, so these are my reading of public data, not an official view of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust or the Shelford Group.