# Long waits for community health services

> People waiting beyond 18 weeks and beyond one year for each London community service.

- Category: NHS
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `nhs-community-long-waits`
- Source: [NHS England](https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/community-health-services-waiting-lists/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-community-long-waits](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-community-long-waits)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/nhs-community-long-waits](https://londongraph.com/data/nhs-community-long-waits)

## Methodology

Published 18–52, 52–104 and over-104-week bands are summed for the NHS London region. A service is included only when every required band is present, so a source blank cannot become a zero. The source is minimally validated management information and service coverage has changed over time.

## Visualisations

- [Overview](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-community-long-waits): People waiting beyond 18 weeks and beyond one year for each London community service.
- [Distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/nhs-community-long-waits?view=distribution): Show every published value around the median and quartiles.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.