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Oral surgery waiting times at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 7,264 people were on the Oral surgery at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (43%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
7,264
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
42.5%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
308
Median wait
23 wks
Published median for this list

308 people (4.2%, roughly 1 in 24) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.3 percentage points behind 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 8.4% of everyone waiting at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Oral surgery, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 42.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 47.8% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
42.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
45% then · change to latest -2.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
46.7% then · change to latest -4.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
47.8% then · change to latest -5.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
43.2% then · change to latest -0.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202642.5%7,264
July 202641.3%7,007
June 202642.5%6,886
May 202645%7,024
April 202645.3%7,102
March 202647.8%7,235
February 202646.7%7,142
January 202645.4%6,888
December 202544.8%6,673
November 202547%6,668
October 202547.8%6,697
September 202548%6,528
August 202547.8%6,467
July 202547.6%6,358
June 202546.1%6,215
May 202544.3%6,339
April 202541.8%6,346
March 202541.8%6,230
February 202543.2%5,995
January 202543.5%6,171
December 202443.7%6,277
November 202444%6,176
October 202442.9%6,466
September 202442.9%6,450
August 202441.7%6,654
July 202441%6,698
June 202443.3%6,672
May 202444.1%6,621
April 202443.2%6,518
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust11.4 mi1,16246%+3.9 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi1,56254%+11.2 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust17.2 mi2,84252%+9.7 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust17.2 mi1,17073%+30.9 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust23 mi8,20246%+3.8 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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