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Care of older people at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

Poole and The Royal Bournemouth elderly medicine waiting times: most people treated waited 6 to 30 weeks.

Of the people still waiting, half have waited under 8 weeks and 9 in 10 under 21 weeks. 90% are within 18 weeks.

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Based on the waiting-now figures for August 2026. Not a prediction of your own wait: urgency decides who is seen first.

How the wait has changed

Elderly medicine at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, 24 months to August 2026
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Shaded band: half to 9 in 10 of people treated that month. Line: the median wait of people still waiting. Weeks on the left.

The numbers behind the chart
MonthTreated, half withinTreated, 9 in 10 withinWaiting now, half within
September 20247.536.712.0
October 20246.844.56.1
November 20243.346.84.0
December 20242.510.35.8
January 20253.911.24.8
February 20252.89.96.0
March 20255.011.68.6
April 20255.211.08.6
May 20255.815.49.0
June 20256.515.08.0
July 20255.514.37.7
August 20256.114.18.7
September 20257.414.710.0
October 20257.021.48.9
November 20257.021.610.3
December 20258.924.410.7
January 20269.622.612.0
February 20268.527.812.7
March 20269.633.49.7
April 20266.731.510.7
May 20269.125.69.0
June 20266.726.98.3
July 20266.321.07.0
August 20266.129.97.6

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