waitingtime.co.uk

How long will A&E actually take?

Official NHS figures are published once a month and lag by weeks. This site adds the missing half: waits reported by people who were in the A&E. Put in your postcode and what you're there for, and see which nearby A&E is likely to move fastest.

Find the fastest A&E near you

Takes about five seconds. No account, nothing stored.

Why we ask what's wrong: a suspected stroke is seen on arrival, a minor injury waits behind the queue.

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Practical things worth knowing — parking, what to bring, how the queue really works. Tips help from the very first one, unlike waits which need dozens.

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220 A&E hospitals are in the database across England and Scotland, including children's and specialist units. Of those, 4 publish a live waiting-time dashboard that we read directly. Where a hospital doesn't publish live data, we show the official monthly figure and label it clearly as such.

Latest published performance

Share of patients admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours — the NHS standard is 95%. These are official figures, not crowd reports.

Moving slowest

KINGSTON HOSPITAL
London 37.2%
DERRIFORD HOSPITAL
South West 39.4%
ROYAL STOKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
West Midlands 42.2%
ROYAL SHREWSBURY HOSPITAL
West Midlands 43.5%
SCARBOROUGH GENERAL HOSPITAL
Yorkshire and The Humber 44.4%

Moving fastest

ORMSKIRK AND DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL
North West 94.7%
CHELTENHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL
South West 89.4%
GEORGE ELIOT HOSPITAL - ACUTE SERVICES
West Midlands 88.7%
Ninewells Hospital
NHS Tayside 88.6%
CALDERDALE ROYAL HOSPITAL
Yorkshire and The Humber 87.3%

No ads, no sponsors, no paid placements. This site is run by one person and earns nothing — the figures are the same for everyone, and no hospital can pay to look better here. Support this site if you'd like to help with the running costs.