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A&E waiting times by hospital

In September 2026, 74.4% of A&E attendances in England ended in admission, transfer or discharge within four hours, against the 95% standard; none of the 120 NHS trusts with a major A&E department met it, and 50,582 patients waited more than 12 hours from a decision to admit to admission. These are published monthly figures, not live waiting times; some trusts publish live A&E waits on their own websites.

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Search by hospital or NHS trust. Each trust’s figures are its published performance for September 2026, not a live wait, and cover every A&E department it runs.

Trusts ranked, September 2026

Share of all A&E attendances that ended in admission, transfer or discharge within four hours of arrival, for the 120 NHS trusts with a major A&E department. Lowest share at the top.

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    England since 2010

    Share of A&E attendances within four hours of arrival in England, all A&E types and major A&E (Type 1), November 2010 to September 2026.

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      Source: NHS England, A&E attendances and emergency admissions: the September 2026 file by provider and the monthly England series.

      Edition: figures for September 2026, published 8 October 2026.

      Next release: 12 November 2026, with figures for October 2026.

      Standards: 95% of patients within four hours is the NHS Constitution standard. 82% by March 2027 is the level set for every trust in NHS England, Medium Term Planning Framework 2026/27 to 2028/29 (27 October 2025).

      Data limits: published monthly figures for each NHS trust, not live waiting times; a trust can run several hospitals and its figures are not split by hospital; 12 hour waits are counted from the decision to admit. Full notes at the source page and on the interactive version.

      Data limits: These are published monthly figures for each NHS trust, not live waiting times. A trust can run several hospitals and its figures are not split by hospital. Type 1 is a major A&E department; Types 2 and 3 are single specialty units, urgent treatment centres, minor injury units and walk in centres. The four hour measure runs from arrival to admission, transfer or discharge; the 12 hour waits here are counted from the decision to admit to admission, not from arrival. Ranks and the ranked chart cover the 120 trusts that reported Type 1 attendances in September 2026, on NHS England’s figures by provider; NHS England also publishes an acute trust footprint version that adds nearby urgent treatment centres run by other providers, which this page does not use. Figures can be revised in later releases. In the England series, November 2010 to May 2015 are estimates from weekly data; from May 2019 to May 2023 the four hour figures leave out 14 trusts that were testing new standards; booked appointments are counted from August 2020; and a cyber attack left Type 3 attendances short from August 2022 to February 2023. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland publish their own figures on different measures. Hospital names come from the NHS Organisation Data Service and were matched to trusts by Totally.Digital, with one name, Broomfield Hospital, added by hand. The nearest trust list measures straight line distance to the hospital sites listed for each trust and says nothing about which hospital an ambulance would go to.

      Hospital names: NHS Organisation Data Service, ORD API, fetched 2 November 2026. Postcode lookup: postcodes.io. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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