Specialist Children London Outstanding

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist children hospital in Bloomsbury, central London, providing tertiary paediatric care across more than 60 clinical specialties.

Data vintage: 2025-Q4 · Reviewed by PlainNHS ·

CQC rating

Outstanding

Inspected 2024-09-15

RTT 18-week

89.1%

89.1% treated within the 18-week standard

A&E 4-hour

95.4%

Pct admitted/discharged in 4 hours

Cancer 62-day

92.3%

Pct treated within 62 days of urgent referral

The verdict

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust ranks 1 of 12 Trusts PlainNHS tracks on the 18-week RTT standard, among the strongest RTT performers and carries a CQC rating of Outstanding.

Ranked against the 12 Trusts PlainNHS currently profiles on this metric, not a full national census.

What this means for patients

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist children based in London, London. It is rated Outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (most recently inspected 2024-09-15). On the headline NHS England operational targets, the trust reported 89.1% of elective pathways completed within the 18-week referral-to-treatment standard, 95.4% of A&E attendances admitted, transferred, or discharged within four hours, and 92.3% of urgent cancer referrals treated within 62 days for the latest reporting month.

Patients have a statutory right to choose where in England they are referred for non-urgent NHS treatment (the Choose & Book entitlement). Use the waiting-time table below to compare Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust's median wait against the procedures most commonly chosen by NHS patients - including cataract surgery, hip and knee replacement, MRI and CT scans, and hernia repair, and use the peer comparison further down to see how this trust ranks within London on the same RTT standard.

The figures here are statistical aggregates published by NHS England and NHS Digital. They do not predict the timing of any individual case. Always confirm referral and pathway details with your GP or with the treating trust before making care decisions.

Waiting times by procedure

Procedure Category Median wait 90th percentile
CT Scan (Outpatient) Diagnostics 5 wks 10.4 wks
MRI Scan (Outpatient) Diagnostics 5.7 wks 12.6 wks
Colonoscopy Diagnostics 6.7 wks 14 wks
Cataract Surgery Ophthalmology 8.8 wks 17 wks
Hernia Repair General Surgery 11.1 wks 19.6 wks
Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy) General Surgery 11.5 wks 20.9 wks
Hip Replacement Orthopaedics 12.8 wks 22.6 wks
Varicose Vein Treatment General Surgery 13.8 wks 23.9 wks
Knee Replacement Orthopaedics 14.2 wks 25.5 wks
Tonsillectomy ENT 16.4 wks 27.1 wks

Source: NHS England Referral-to-Treatment (RTT) waiting times, reporting month 2025-12. View source

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Source attribution & methodology

Important: This page presents publicly available NHS performance data (NHS England + CQC). It is not medical advice and does not predict timing or outcome of any individual case. Always consult your GP, NHS 111, or the treating Trust for clinical decisions.