NHS waiting lists: referral to treatment pathways waiting to start treatment, August 2024 onwards

Data values	Data description	Date	local health board provider	specialty	stage of pathway	weeks waiting	age group
1	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Accident and Emergency	Waiting for admitted diagnostic or therapeutic intervention only	Over 49 weeks and up to 53 weeks	Total
1	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Accident and Emergency	Waiting for admitted diagnostic or therapeutic intervention only	Over 49 weeks and up to 53 weeks	Over 18 years of age
1	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Accident and Emergency	Waiting for admitted diagnostic or therapeutic intervention only	Total	Over 18 years of age
1	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Accident and Emergency	Waiting for admitted diagnostic or therapeutic intervention only	Total	Total
1	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Accident and Emergency	All Stages of Pathway	Over 49 weeks and up to 53 weeks	Total
1	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Accident and Emergency	All Stages of Pathway	Over 49 weeks and up to 53 weeks	Over 18 years of age
1	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Accident and Emergency	All Stages of Pathway	Total	Total
1	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Accident and Emergency	All Stages of Pathway	Total	Over 18 years of age
120	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 0 weeks and up to 1 week	Over 18 years of age
9	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 0 weeks and up to 1 week	Less than 18 years of age
31	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 0 weeks and up to 1 week	Not Known/Not Recorded
160	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 0 weeks and up to 1 week	Total
183	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 1 week and up to 2 weeks	Total
20	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 1 week and up to 2 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
159	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 1 week and up to 2 weeks	Over 18 years of age
4	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 1 week and up to 2 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
9	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 2 weeks and up to 3 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
165	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 2 weeks and up to 3 weeks	Over 18 years of age
38	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 2 weeks and up to 3 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
212	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 2 weeks and up to 3 weeks	Total
222	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 3 weeks and up to 4 weeks	Total
52	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 3 weeks and up to 4 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
166	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 3 weeks and up to 4 weeks	Over 18 years of age
4	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 3 weeks and up to 4 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
185	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 4 weeks and up to 5 weeks	Over 18 years of age
222	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 4 weeks and up to 5 weeks	Total
33	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 4 weeks and up to 5 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
4	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 4 weeks and up to 5 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
21	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 5 weeks and up to 6 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
188	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 5 weeks and up to 6 weeks	Over 18 years of age
221	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 5 weeks and up to 6 weeks	Total
12	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 5 weeks and up to 6 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
129	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 6 weeks and up to 7 weeks	Total
21	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 6 weeks and up to 7 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
100	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 6 weeks and up to 7 weeks	Over 18 years of age
8	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 6 weeks and up to 7 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
119	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 7 weeks and up to 8 weeks	Over 18 years of age
165	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 7 weeks and up to 8 weeks	Total
21	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 7 weeks and up to 8 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
25	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 7 weeks and up to 8 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
22	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 8 weeks and up to 9 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
154	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 8 weeks and up to 9 weeks	Over 18 years of age
182	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 8 weeks and up to 9 weeks	Total
6	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 8 weeks and up to 9 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
167	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 9 weeks and up to 10 weeks	Total
124	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 9 weeks and up to 10 weeks	Over 18 years of age
37	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 9 weeks and up to 10 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
6	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 9 weeks and up to 10 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
125	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 10 weeks and up to 11 weeks	Over 18 years of age
8	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 10 weeks and up to 11 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
33	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 10 weeks and up to 11 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
166	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 10 weeks and up to 11 weeks	Total
132	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 11 weeks and up to 12 weeks	Total
27	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 11 weeks and up to 12 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
104	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 11 weeks and up to 12 weeks	Over 18 years of age
1	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 11 weeks and up to 12 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
90	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 12 weeks and up to 13 weeks	Over 18 years of age
6	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 12 weeks and up to 13 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
21	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 12 weeks and up to 13 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
117	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 12 weeks and up to 13 weeks	Total
102	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 13 weeks and up to 14 weeks	Total
21	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 13 weeks and up to 14 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
76	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 13 weeks and up to 14 weeks	Over 18 years of age
5	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 13 weeks and up to 14 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
15	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 14 weeks and up to 15 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
2	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 14 weeks and up to 15 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
94	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 14 weeks and up to 15 weeks	Over 18 years of age
111	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 14 weeks and up to 15 weeks	Total
126	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 15 weeks and up to 16 weeks	Total
7	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 15 weeks and up to 16 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
14	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 15 weeks and up to 16 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
105	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 15 weeks and up to 16 weeks	Over 18 years of age
50	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 16 weeks and up to 17 weeks	Over 18 years of age
17	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 16 weeks and up to 17 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
8	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 16 weeks and up to 17 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
75	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 16 weeks and up to 17 weeks	Total
109	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 17 weeks and up to 18 weeks	Total
86	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 17 weeks and up to 18 weeks	Over 18 years of age
20	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 17 weeks and up to 18 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
3	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 17 weeks and up to 18 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
3	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 18 weeks and up to 19 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
10	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 18 weeks and up to 19 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
104	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 18 weeks and up to 19 weeks	Over 18 years of age
117	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 18 weeks and up to 19 weeks	Total
86	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 19 weeks and up to 20 weeks	Total
19	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 19 weeks and up to 20 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
58	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 19 weeks and up to 20 weeks	Over 18 years of age
9	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 19 weeks and up to 20 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
2	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 20 weeks and up to 21 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
12	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 20 weeks and up to 21 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
71	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 20 weeks and up to 21 weeks	Over 18 years of age
85	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 20 weeks and up to 21 weeks	Total
60	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 21 weeks and up to 22 weeks	Total
9	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 21 weeks and up to 22 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
49	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 21 weeks and up to 22 weeks	Over 18 years of age
2	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 21 weeks and up to 22 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
2	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 22 weeks and up to 23 weeks	Less than 18 years of age
6	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 22 weeks and up to 23 weeks	Not Known/Not Recorded
54	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 22 weeks and up to 23 weeks	Over 18 years of age
62	Pathways waiting	Aug-2024	Wales	Allied Health Profession Services	Waiting for new OP appointment	Over 22 weeks and up to 23 weeks	Total

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Main information

• Most recent update: 23 October 2025
• Next update expected: 20 November 2025
• Designation: Accredited official statistics
• Data provider: Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW)
• Data source: Referral to Treatment Times (RTT)

Data notes

Overview

• Summary of dataset and variables:

  Information on referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times, reported by Local Health Boards. RTT is the period of time from referral by a GP or other medical practitioner to hospital for treatment in the NHS in Wales. An RTT pathway covers the time waited from referral to hospital for treatment in the NHS in Wales and includes time spent waiting for any hospital appointments, tests, scans or other procedures that may be needed before being treated.

• Data collection or calculation:

  The data presented draws on management information held by Local Health Boards relating to the management of patients who have been referred for hospital treatment. Guidance is provided to the NHS in Wales about how such patients should be managed and how to measure and report the relevant data. The data is reported monthly by Local Health Boards via the Digital Health and Care Wales Service (DHCW) switching service. The data collection has been in place since April 2007.

  Please find this information in the related statistical release, as per the given weblink.

  From 1st April 2019 health service provision for residents of Bridgend local authority moved from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg to Cwm Taf. For more information see the joint statement from Cwm Taf and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Boards. The health board names have changed with Cwm Taf University Health Board becoming Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board becoming Swansea Bay University Health Board.

• Statistical quality:

  A referral to treatment pathway (RTT) covers the time waiting from referral to hospital for treatment and includes time spent waiting for any hospital appointments, tests, scans or other procedures that may be needed before being treated.

  A patient pathway opens, and a waiting time begins, at the point a hospital receives a referral. Referrals are most commonly submitted by GPs but may also come from other health care professionals. The main activity measure for referral to treatment time is a count of the number of patient pathways which are open at the end of each month. This can be thought of as ‘the waiting list’.

  A patient pathway is closed if either the patient starts treatment, or if following consultation with a hospital specialist, no hospital treatment is necessary. This could include: patient admitted to hospital for an operation or treatment starting treatment that does not need a stay in hospital (for example, medication or physiotherapy) beginning the fitting of a medical device such as leg braces starting an agreed period of time to monitor the patient’s condition to assess the need for further treatment Patients with complex needs may have referrals for multiple types of treatments so may have many pathways opened and will appear in the dataset more than one time. This means that the same patient can have different pathways counted in the calculations for both targets.

  In March 2016, we changed some of the terminology used in referral to treatment reporting. Previously, when publishing these statistics, we used the terminology ‘patients’. However, some users misinterpreted this as unique patients. It is possible that a person could be on a number of different lists waiting for different conditions – i.e. there would be one patient but more than one pathway. Due to the RTT dataset being an aggregate data collection we’re not able to measure the number of unique patients. Therefore, we are using the terminology ‘patient pathways’, to better reflect the fact that one person can be on multiple waiting lists. The methodology use to measure and calculate these statistics has not changed. This is also more consistent with the other nations of the UK in their reporting of RTT.

  From April 2016, there has been a change in the treatment function codes submitted by the local health boards.

  More detailed treatment functions have been introduced recently but have not been used consistently across all Local Health Boards; for example, patients receiving vascular surgery may have been recorded in either “General Surgery” or “Vascular Surgery” treatment functions. To reduce uncertainty and make counts more reliable, the new functions will be removed temporarily and treatment functions will be recorded under the more general headings; for example, all patients receiving vascular surgery will now be published under “General Surgery” until consistent recording of treatment functions is confirmed across all Local Health Boards. This has now been fully actioned back to April 2016 when the new codes were introduced and will remain under general headings until the more detailed treatment functions are used consistently across Wales.

• Related reports:
  • NHS activity and performance summary, statistical release
  • NHS activity and performance summary: quality report

Published by

• Organisation: Welsh Government
• Contact email: stats.healthinfo@gov.wales

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