NHS Wait Helper

Hospital service waiting times

Oral surgery waiting times at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,886 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
6,886
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
42.5%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
173
Median wait
22 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 12.5 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 8.3% of everyone waiting at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 5.1 percentage points (48% to 43%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 5.3 points over 3 months (47.8% in March 2026); down 2.3 points over 6 months (44.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -5.1 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 202547.6%
August 202547.8%
September 202548%
October 202547.8%
November 202547%
December 202544.8%
January 202645.4%
February 202646.7%
March 202647.8%
April 202645.3%
May 202645%
June 202642.5%

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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,35847.6%254
August 20256,46747.8%251
September 20256,52848.0%177
October 20256,69747.8%169
November 20256,66847.0%189
December 20256,67344.8%222
January 20266,88845.4%287
February 20267,14246.7%276
March 20267,23547.8%123
April 20267,10245.3%197
May 20267,02445.0%158
June 20266,88642.5%173

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 mi96237%-5.8 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi1,42263%+20.5 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust17.2 mi2,80357%+14.1 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust17.2 mi1,10275%+32.5 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust23 mi8,46345%+2.9 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.

Related guides on this site

Related pages

All hospitals