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Oral surgery waiting times at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,238 people were on the Oral surgery at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (77%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
6,238
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
76.7%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 21.7 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. This service accounts for 41.7% of everyone waiting at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 19.3 percentage points (57% to 77%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 6.8 points over 3 months (69.9% in March 2026); up 13 points over 6 months (63.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +19.3 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 202557.4%
August 202558.7%
September 202562.5%
October 202561.9%
November 202562.1%
December 202563.7%
January 202661.9%
February 202656.7%
March 202669.9%
April 202671.1%
May 202672.8%
June 202676.7%

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 Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,23157.4%43
August 20257,41558.7%38
September 20257,22062.5%26
October 20257,35561.9%28
November 20257,32162.1%20
December 20257,54763.7%9
January 20267,86161.9%12
February 20267,37056.7%9
March 20266,59269.9%1
April 20266,31971.1%1
May 20266,20772.8%1
June 20266,23876.7%0

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
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust2.7 mi1,17953%-23.3 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi2,47147%-29.7 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust8.1 mi2,21160%-16.4 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust9.8 mi2,27151%-25.2 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust11.7 mi4,71243%-34 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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