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General surgery waiting times at Barts Health NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,448 people were on the General surgery at Barts Health NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Barts Health NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
4,448
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.6%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
60
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

60 people (1.3%, roughly 1 in 77) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 3.7% of everyone waiting at Barts Health NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 13.9 percentage points (52% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 8.6 points over 3 months (57.0% in March 2026); up 14.4 points over 6 months (51.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +13.9 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202551.7%
August 202552.1%
September 202551.2%
October 202552%
November 202551.5%
December 202551.2%
January 202651.6%
February 202652.3%
March 202657%
April 202660.9%
May 202662.5%
June 202665.6%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly General surgery figures at Barts Health NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,06951.7%298
August 20255,18252.1%295
September 20255,24751.2%280
October 20255,39852.0%268
November 20255,48651.5%279
December 20255,50951.2%275
January 20265,46051.6%211
February 20265,24652.3%154
March 20264,92057.0%67
April 20264,71760.9%58
May 20264,63462.5%50
June 20264,44865.6%60

Other NHS trusts offering general surgery within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for General surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2.4 mi2,71762%-3.8 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust3 mi1,58556%-9.8 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.5 mi5884%+18.9 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.8 mi4,68540%-25.7 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust4.7 mi6,49269%+3.5 pp

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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