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University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

NHS trust · ODS code RKB

About this trust

Type
NHS acute trust
Hospitals
2 on the CQC register
Website
www.uhcw.nhs.uk

Care Quality Commission rating

Trust-wide rating, most recent inspection: n/a.

Good 3 of 4 CQC bands (most recent published rating)

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25.

What patients said

The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend the service. Responses for May 2026.

Inpatient care
93%
would recommend · 2,240 responses
A&E
78%
would recommend · 1,179 responses
Outpatient appointments
96%
would recommend · 2,766 responses

NHS England Friends and Family Test, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25. The FFT is not a formal performance measure and response rates vary between services.

Cancer waiting times

How quickly this trust diagnoses and starts treatment for people referred with a suspicion of cancer. Data for March 2026. Targets are the NHS operational standards. No English region currently meets the 62-day standard.

62-day treatment
76%
% starting first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral
target 85%
28-day diagnosis
89%
% told they have cancer, or that they do not, within 28 days of an urgent referral
target 75%
31-day treatment
97%
% starting first treatment within 31 days of the decision to treat
target 96%

62-day treatment by cancer type

The share of patients who began treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, for each type this trust reports. The national aim is 85%. Numbers per type are smaller, so they move more from month to month.

Cancer typeWithin 62 days
Breast84%
Lung90%
Bowel100%
Prostate36%
Skin88%
Gynaecological71%
Head and neck55%
Lymphoma67%
Oesophagus and stomach60%
Liver and bile duct94%
Other urological42%
Other blood91%

NHS England Cancer Waiting Times, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25. Provisional monthly data. Small numbers of patients can move a percentage sharply.

Mortality (SHMI)

The Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator compares the number of people who die after care at this trust with the number expected, given how ill the patients were. Rolling 12 months to August 2025.

Higher than expected SHMI 1.231.00 = as expected

NHS Digital, Accredited Official Statistic, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25. The SHMI is not a measure of the quality of care and a “higher than expected” band is a flag for further investigation, not a judgement. It must not be used to rank trusts. It does not include deaths of patients receiving palliative care where that is coded.

Research output

Papers published by researchers affiliated with this trust, indexed by OpenAlex.

252 papers in 2026

2022: 418 · 2023: 547 · 2024: 467 · 2025: 521 · 2026: 252

Top subject areas:

Total Knee Arthroplasty OutcomesShoulder Injury and TreatmentRenal Transplantation Outcomes and TreatmentsReproductive System and PregnancyCardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes

See the paper list on OpenAlex →

OpenAlex, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-25. Counts by publication year, not by when a paper's affiliation record was last updated - a recent year's count can still rise as OpenAlex indexes more of that year's output.

NHS waiting times, trust-wide

Weeks from referral to treatment for NHS-funded care, across all this trust's sites.

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment. Median wait is for the latest published month; the trend covers every month since we began keeping the series.
SpecialtyMedian waitWithin 18 weeksPatients waitingTrend
All specialties14 wks58%72,1931 week shorter since Jan 2026
Cardiology9 wks76%2,2093 weeks shorter since Jan 2026
Cardiothoracic surgery7 wks86%3243 weeks shorter since Jan 2026
Dermatology7 wks78%3,1073 weeks shorter since Jan 2026
Ear, nose and throat22 wks40%9,025no change since Jan 2026
Elderly medicine5 wks94%821 week shorter since Jan 2026
Gastroenterology8 wks78%1,463no change since Jan 2026
General internal medicine4 wks95%5619 weeks shorter since Jan 2026
General surgery13 wks62%8,357no change since Jan 2026
Gynaecology19 wks47%6,8553 weeks longer since Jan 2026
Neurology15 wks55%3,9711 week shorter since Jan 2026
Neurosurgery18 wks48%5,3281 week shorter since Jan 2026
Ophthalmology16 wks54%6,8131 week shorter since Jan 2026
Oral surgery14 wks60%3,3822 weeks longer since Jan 2026
Other medical services10 wks69%6,0804 weeks shorter since Jan 2026
Other services6 wks84%2814 weeks shorter since Jan 2026
Paediatric services17 wks53%1,5814 weeks longer since Jan 2026
Plastic surgery13 wks61%529no change since Jan 2026
Respiratory medicine11 wks72%2,6051 week shorter since Jan 2026
Rheumatology3 wks96%6003 weeks shorter since Jan 2026
Trauma and orthopaedics14 wks60%5,5064 weeks shorter since Jan 2026
Urology17 wks51%3,5341 week shorter since Jan 2026

NHS-funded care only. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Hospitals in this trust

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Data shown with the date it was retrieved. Waiting times are NHS statistics for the named provider and change every month. How we source and check this.