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Oral surgery waiting times at Barts Health NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,573 people were on the Oral surgery at Barts Health NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
3,573
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.0%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
88
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

88 people (2.5%, roughly 1 in 40) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5 percentage points better than the England figure 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 2.9% 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 10.3 percentage points (50% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (58.9% in March 2026); up 9 points over 6 months (51.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +10.3 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 202549.7%
August 202548.3%
September 202548.4%
October 202549.3%
November 202551%
December 202551%
January 202654%
February 202658.2%
March 202658.9%
April 202657.6%
May 202657.9%
June 202660%

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 Oral surgery figures at Barts Health NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,86549.7%356
August 20254,67948.3%299
September 20254,71248.4%296
October 20254,62649.3%275
November 20254,70551.0%268
December 20254,74651.0%259
January 20264,31154.0%179
February 20264,12258.2%138
March 20263,79658.9%70
April 20263,61857.6%67
May 20263,50257.9%83
June 20263,57360.0%88

Other NHS trusts offering oral 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 Oral surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2.4 mi2,05769%+9.1 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust3 mi5,69380%+20.1 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.5 mi7,01770%+10 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.8 mi9,05659%-1.1 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust4.9 mi12369%+9.1 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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