NHS waits of more than a year: record highs and lows

The extremes of nhs waits of more than a year as published by NHS England, across the 227 periods held here (August 2007 to June 2026). Each record is a published figure, not a computed one, and the scope is this series — not “ever”.

Highest published

578,682August 2007

Lowest published

295June 2013

The full series

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What a record here is, and is not

A record is the extreme of the periods this site holds for the current series, at each period’s newest published release. Earlier series measured under different methods are not compared against it. Money is in cash terms: a record set years ago stands against the money of its own year.