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North East London NHS Foundation Trust

Ilford, IG3 8XJ · Compare with another trust

At a glance

Whether this trust meets each official NHS operational standard — not a combined score or ranking.

Waiting times
Below NHS standard
75.7% within 18 weeks · standard 92% · About this data
A&E
Meets NHS standard
96.7% within 4 hours · standard 95% · About this data
Cancer
Below NHS standard
0.0% treated within 62 days · standard 85% · About this data
Diagnostics
Below NHS standard
78.6% waiting 6+ weeks · standard 1.0% or fewer · About this data
Mortality (SHMI)
No data
No data · About this data

In plain English

AI-generated

North East London NHS Foundation Trust reported 1,751 A&E attendances in July 2026. Of these patients, 96.7% were dealt with within four hours, and zero waited over 12 hours after a decision to admit. Additionally, 65.4% of staff in the 2025 NHS Staff Survey said they would be happy for a friend or relative to be treated there.

Automatically generated from the official figures on this page and checked to restate only those figures. Last generated 16 August 2026. This is a plain-English summary, not medical advice. About these summaries

Hospitals run by this trust

Trust performance

A&E patients seen within 4 hours
96.7%
National median: 74.2%
1.1 pts vs yr agoBetter than 94% of trustsData: Jul 2026
A&E attendances
1,751
National median: 14,642
156 vs yr agoData: Jul 2026
12-hour trolley waits
0
National median: 194
Better than 81% of trustsData: Jul 2026

A&E performance

Latest month: July 2026· all A&E department types combined — the official headline basis.

A&E attendances
1,751
All department types · latest month
Seen within 4 hours
96.7%
All department types · NHS standard: 95%
Waited over 12 hours
0
From decision-to-admit ('trolley waits')
Emergency admissions
0
All department types · latest month

This trust does not run a separate major (Type 1) A&E department — the figures above are for its minor-injury unit(s) or urgent treatment centre(s) — Type 3 in NHS England’s classification.

Department typeAttendancesWithin 4 hours
All types (official headline)1,75196.7%
Type 3 — minor injury / UTC1,75196.7%

Source: NHS England A&E Attendances & Emergency Admissions. About this data

Cancer waiting times

Latest month: May 2026.

Treatment within 62 days
0.0%
0 of 1 treated in time
Target 85% · below target
Treated within 62 days
Urgent referral to first treatment
0%25%50%75%Nov 25NHS standard 85%0.0%0.0%November 20250.0%May 2026

Source: NHS England Cancer Waiting Times. The 62-day standard is urgent referral to first treatment; the 28-day faster-diagnosis standard is referral to diagnosis or ruling-out. About this data

Staff experience (NHS Staff Survey)

2025 · the views of staff who work at this trust — a measure of workforce culture, morale and confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes. There is no official NHS target for these figures, so they are shown as context, never a pass or fail.

Staff happy for a friend or relative to be treated here
65.4%
Agreed · 2025 NHS Staff Survey▼ 3.6 pts vs 2024Median English trust: 63.9%
Staff engagement
7.04
out of 10 · 2025
Would recommend as a place to work
64.8%
Agreed · 2025

The NHS Staff Survey records the views of staff who chose to respond — a measure of workforce culture, morale and staff confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes or safety. Response rates vary between trusts. England only; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run separate staff surveys on a different basis, so these figures are never compared across nations.

Source: NHS Staff Survey (NHS England), Open Government Licence. About this data

Bed occupancy, ambulance handovers & delayed discharges (UEC Daily SitRep)

Snapshot at 8am, 29 March 2026. This is unvalidated management information— NHS England's own label — and can be revised for up to 14 days after first publication. It is collected only during the winter Daily SitRep window, so this is the latest date the collection has published, not necessarily today. It measures operational pressure (how full the hospital is), NOT care quality — high occupancy is normal for NHS hospitals, especially in winter, and is not a safety or performance score. The ambulance-handover figures below cover winter 2025-26 as a period total(not a snapshot): the time from an ambulance arriving to the patient being handed over to A&E staff. The delayed-discharge figures cover the most recent 7 daysof the collection (not a snapshot, and not the whole winter): a patient who "no longer meets the criteria to reside" is medically ready to leave hospital, but how quickly they actually do mostly reflects social-care and community capacity to receive them — NOT the hospital's own clinical quality. A higher handover or delayed-discharge figure means more operational pressure — like the rest of this section, none of it is a measure of care quality, and it carries no colour grading, badge or ranking.

Ambulance handovers over 30 minutes
72.7%
of 609 handovers, winter 2025-26
Ambulance handovers over 60 minutes
10.3%
of 609 handovers, winter 2025-26

Source: NHS England UEC Daily SitRep, Ambulance Handover and Acute Discharge SitRep collections. About this data

Diagnostic test waits

Latest month: June 2026. The operational standard is that under 1% should wait more than 6 weeks.

Waiting 6+ weeks for a test
78.6%
of 98 patients on the diagnostic waiting list
TestWaiting list6+ weeks6+ weeks (count)13+ weeks
Audiology9878.6%7749
Waiting 6+ weeks for a diagnostic test
All tests combined
60%80%Apr 25Jan 2678.6%60.1%April 202561.7%May 202555.8%June 202566.3%July 202564.8%August 202561.1%September 202545.9%October 202547.5%November 202584.9%December 202576.9%January 202669.9%February 202683.0%March 202686.9%April 202675.8%May 202678.6%June 2026

Source: NHS England Diagnostic Waiting Times & Activity (DM01). About this data

Waiting times by specialty

Data: January 2024 · Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics (incomplete pathways)

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Other - Paediatrics2,38874.8%8.2 wks38.0 wks2273
Elderly Medicine89100.0%2.4 wks6.7 wks000

Figures come from NHS England's official monthly statistics and the CQC directory, reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See methodology for definitions.