Live figures: Northern Ireland HSC Trusts via nidirect (OGL v3.0) · A&E data for September 2026, published 8 October 2026
Live A&E waiting times
Current emergency department and urgent care waits where the NHS publishes them in a form we are allowed to reuse, with links to hospitals that publish their own live figures. Everywhere else we show the latest official monthly statistics.
If it's an emergency call 999. Waits are estimates from the hospital/health board; not medical advice. Live waits change quickly and you will be seen in order of clinical need, not arrival time. If it is not an emergency, NHS 111 online or calling 111 can tell you where to go, including urgent treatment centres, which often have shorter waits. Call 999 or go to A&E for life-threatening emergencies such as chest pain, difficulty breathing, severe bleeding or signs of a stroke.
Northern Ireland: live emergency department waits
The Health and Social Care Trusts publish the median time patients currently in each emergency department have waited from arrival to being seen by a clinician, updated through the day on nidirect. Northern Ireland also runs Phone First for some urgent care units: phone before you travel.
Live waits in Northern Ireland
If it's an emergency call 999. Waits are estimates from the hospital/health board; not medical advice.
Current waits for each hospital load here from the nidirect emergency department waiting times page, which is updated through the day by the Health and Social Care Trusts.
Live waits could not be loaded. See the nidirect emergency department waiting times page.
Source: nidirect, figures supplied by the Health and Social Care Trusts. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Refreshed from the source at most every 10 minutes.
Local pages: Belfast · Antrim · Ballymena · Newry · Bangor (County Down) · Londonderry / Derry.
England: hospitals that publish their own live waits
NHS England does not publish a national live A&E feed. Some trusts show current waits on their own websites. Their terms do not allow us to copy the figures, so we link to them instead. For every trust in England, see the monthly A&E league table.
| Trust | Sites | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Leighton Hospital | Live waits on trust website |
| Milton Keynes University Hospital | Milton Keynes ED | Live waits on trust website |
| North Cumbria Integrated Care | Cumberland Infirmary and West Cumberland Hospital | Live waits on trust website |
| Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | Midland Metropolitan University Hospital and other sites | Live waits on trust website |
| The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal | Live waits on trust website |
| Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust | Torbay Hospital ED and minor injury units | Live waits on trust website |
| University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay | Royal Lancaster, Furness General, Westmorland General | Live waits on trust website |
| Wye Valley NHS Trust | Hereford County Hospital | Live waits on trust website |
Scotland: weekly figures for the week ending 18 October 2026 NOT LIVE
Scottish health boards do not publish a live A&E feed we can reuse. Public Health Scotland publishes weekly emergency department statistics every Tuesday. In the week ending 18 October 2026, 60.7% of 27,811 attendances at Scotland’s emergency departments spent 4 hours or less in A&E.
| Health board | Attendances | Spent 4 hours or less | Main sites |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 1,909 | 57.2% | University Hospital Crosshouse, University Hospital Ayr |
| NHS Borders | 696 | 62.2% | Borders General Hospital |
| NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 1,089 | 71.6% | Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary, Galloway Community Hospital |
| NHS Fife | 1,388 | 50.0% | Victoria Hospital |
| NHS Forth Valley | 1,327 | 49.3% | Forth Valley Royal Hospital |
| NHS Grampian | 2,135 | 58.4% | Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Dr Gray's Hospital, Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital |
| NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 6,911 | 60.1% | Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Royal Hospital for Children |
| NHS Highland | 1,441 | 72.6% | Raigmore Hospital, Belford Hospital, Caithness General Hospital |
| NHS Lanarkshire | 3,726 | 47.3% | University Hospital Wishaw , University Hospital Monklands , University Hospital Hairmyres |
| NHS Lothian | 5,057 | 62.3% | Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at Little France, St John's Hospital, Royal Hospital for Children and Young People |
| NHS Orkney | 135 | 85.2% | The Balfour |
| NHS Shetland | 164 | 89.0% | Gilbert Bain Hospital |
| NHS Tayside | 1,708 | 87.9% | Ninewells Hospital, Perth Royal Infirmary |
| NHS Western Isles | 125 | 95.2% | Western Isles Hospital |
Source: Public Health Scotland weekly A&E activity, Open Government Licence v3.0. Emergency departments only (not minor injury units). For urgent care in Scotland, call NHS 24 on 111.
Wales
NHS Wales’ My A&E Live service is not currently showing waiting times; it directs people to NHS 111 Wales. Cardiff and Vale and Powys run Phone First for minor injuries and urgent care. We show monthly StatsWales figures for each health board on the A&E page.
How live figures work
- We fetch each source at most every 10 minutes and show the time the source says it was last updated.
- Each figure is marked LIVE while the source has updated it in the last 3 hours. If a source has not updated for 3 to 12 hours we show it in amber as Delayed, with the time it was last updated. After 12 hours we stop showing it and fall back to the official published figures.
- Figures marked NOT LIVE are official statistics for a past week, month or quarter, shown with their date.
- Figures are medians or typical waits for people already in the department. Your own wait depends on how urgent your condition is.
- We only reproduce live figures where the publisher’s terms allow reuse. See data sources.
Frequently asked questions
Are these A&E waiting times live?
Northern Ireland figures are live: they are published by the Health and Social Care Trusts on nidirect and refreshed here at least every 10 minutes, with the source’s own “last updated” time shown. Other figures on this site are official monthly or quarterly statistics.
What does the Northern Ireland wait mean?
It is the median time that patients currently waiting have spent from arrival to being seen by a clinician. Half have waited less and half longer. The most urgent patients are always seen first.
Are the Scottish figures live?
No. Public Health Scotland publishes weekly figures every Tuesday for the week ending the previous Sunday. We show them as NOT LIVE with the week they cover.
Why are there no live waits for my hospital in England?
NHS England does not publish live A&E data. Some trusts publish their own, which we link to, but their copyright terms do not allow us to reproduce the numbers.
Should I go to A&E or call 111?
If it is not an emergency, NHS 111 online or calling 111 can tell you where to go, including urgent treatment centres, which often have shorter waits. Call 999 or go to A&E for life-threatening emergencies such as chest pain, difficulty breathing, severe bleeding or signs of a stroke.