INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

get_national_specialty

National England-wide waiting-list stats for one specialty in the latest month: providers reporting, patients waiting, median wait in weeks, % treated within 18 weeks.

hospitalwaits.co.uknone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/api/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for get_national_specialty and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

hospitalwaits.co.uk

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.hospitalwaits]
url = "https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hospitalwaits": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: hospitalwaits
Remote MCP URL: https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hospitalwaits": {
      "url": "https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "hospitalwaits": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "hospitalwaits",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://hospitalwaits.co.uk/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

search_trusts — Find English NHS trusts by (partial) name.
list_specialties — The 18 hospital specialties HospitalWaits tracks, with the slug needed by get_national_specialty.
get_trust_waits — Every specialty's waiting time at one NHS trust in the latest month: median wait in weeks, patients waiting, % within 18 weeks.
get_ae_performance — One trust's A&E record: latest month's Type-1 4-hour performance, 12-hour waits from decision-to-admit, attendances, national rank, and monthly history.
list_ae_trusts — Latest month's A&E performance for every English trust with a major (Type 1) emergency department: 4-hour % and 12-hour decision-to-admit waits.
find_talking_therapies — NHS Talking Therapies (free NHS mental-health treatment for anxiety/depression) services with recorded activity for an English postcode's area, with each provider's median wait.
get_talking_therapies — One NHS Talking Therapies provider's waiting-time record: median days referral→treatment, performance vs the 6-week (75%) and 18-week (95%) standards, waiting-list size, areas served.