Community Health Services Waiting Lists
This publication contains monthly information on waiting lists and times for community health services in England.
Background
The Community Health Services (CHS) SitRep collects monthly data on waiting lists and waiting times for Children and Young People’s (CYP) and Adult’s community health services. Providers submit aggregated information for service lines, irrespective of the number of ICBs or regions they provide services under. The SitRep includes a broad range of NHS commissioned community health services. It may not cover all services in some systems
This publication contains management data which is collected on a rapid turnaround basis, allowing only minimal validation to be undertaken. It includes:
- Total number of patients on the waiting list
- Number waiting 0-1 weeks (0-7 days)
- Number waiting 1-2 weeks (8-14 days)
- Number waiting 2-4 weeks (15-28 days)
- Number waiting 4-12 weeks (29-84 days)
- Number waiting 12-18 weeks (85-126 days)
- Number waiting 18-52 weeks (127-364 days)
- Number waiting 52-104 weeks (365-728 days)
- Number waiting over 104 weeks (over 2 years)
Data are shown at national, regional, system and provider level.
Monthly Publication
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-February
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-January
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-December
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-November
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-October
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-September
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-August
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-July
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-June
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-May
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-April
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-March
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-February
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-January-revised
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-December
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-November
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-October
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-September
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-August-revised
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-July
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-June
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-May
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2023-24-April
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2022-23-March
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2022-23-February
Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2022-23-January
Pre-release Access List
Notes
Dec 24, Jan 25, Feb 25 data: Timeseries data issue
We have identified a slight inflation in the Nov 24 data within the timeseries tabs of the Dec 24, Jan 25, and Feb 25 data files. This overestimation of 4,013 in the national figure is due to the double counting of a provider. Please note that this issue does not affect the Nov 24 data published in the ‘Community-health-services-waiting-lists-2024-25-November’ file. This will be corrected in the next publication.
Dec 24 data: New breakdown added
From the February 2025 publication onwards, this publication will include a new breakdown detailing waiting times greater than 104 weeks (2 years).
Feb 24 data: New providers onboarded
On 2nd February new guidance was introduced stating that Community RTT pathways should no longer be reported in the RTT monthly collection and instead be reported in the Community Health Services datasets. This change primarily impacted Community Paediatric and Paediatric Neurodisability specialties, which are recorded under Other – Other services and Other-Paediatric Services within the RTT dataset.
This has resulted in 13 new providers being in scope of this sitrep and an increase in waits reported to community paediatric services. There are now 151 providers which are in-scope to submit to the CHS sitrep. These changes contributed to the increase in the total waiting list size which increased in February 2024 to just over 1 million.
The guidance change has led to an increase in the number of community paediatric pathways reported within this release as pathways previously recorded elsewhere have been transferred to the Community Health Services waiting list sitrep
Some of the increase seen in the Community Health Services waiting lists (8,550 pathways) is attributed to the 13 new NHS Acute providers invited to submit for the first time this month (of which 3 did not provide a submission).
Feb 24 data: Non-submitter overcount fixed
In Feb 2024 a data processing error resulting in a two-unit overcount of non-submitters has been identified and fixed. This issue affected publications from Sep 2023 to Jan 2024.
Jan 24 data: Resubmission data not included
*As of 11/04/2024 a revised version of the January data has been published. This file contains correct data for January 24, and is not affected by the below issue*
Please note that the January 2024 data previously shared for the CHS SitRep only contains data submitted in the initial submission window. This has led to an estimated undercount of around 7k on the total national waiting list.
Any data submitted in the re-submission window was not included in the extract, dashboard, UDAL tables or publication as published and shared on or after 14th March 2024.
For information, those organisations with data affected are listed below. No action needs to be taken by these organisations.
BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST (R1H)
BOLTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (RMC)
BRIDGEWATER COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (RY2)
CROYDON HEALTH SERVICES NHS TRUST (RJ6)
EAST AND NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE NHS TRUST (RWH)
EAST CHESHIRE NHS TRUST (RJN)
FIRST COMMUNITY HEALTH AND CARE CIC (NDJ)
GLOUCESTERSHIRE HEALTH AND CARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (RTQ)
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (R0A)
SANDWELL AND WEST BIRMINGHAM HOSPITALS NHS TRUST (RXK)
THE DUDLEY GROUP NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (RNA)
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (RRK)
Contact
For further information about the published statistics, please contact us at: england.communityhealthservicesdata@nhs.net.
If you are a patient wishing to discuss your own waiting time experience, you should contact your local commissioner, which you can find via the NHS website.