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Oral surgery waiting times at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,392 people were on the Oral surgery at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
2,392
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
50.7%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
63
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

63 people (2.6%, roughly 1 in 38) 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 6.3% of everyone waiting at Bolton 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 11.7 percentage points (39% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.7 points over 3 months (53.4% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (48.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +11.7 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 202539%
August 202541.6%
September 202546.6%
October 202546.6%
November 202550.1%
December 202548.9%
January 202649.6%
February 202651.3%
March 202653.4%
April 202651.7%
May 202652.2%
June 202650.7%

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 Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,03039.0%237
August 20252,81841.6%192
September 20252,62146.6%141
October 20252,57946.6%148
November 20252,52050.1%131
December 20252,59748.9%122
January 20262,54949.6%112
February 20262,44551.3%57
March 20262,35053.4%40
April 20262,38551.7%52
May 20262,37052.2%57
June 20262,39250.7%63

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
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi1,85448%-2.6 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi1,38162%+11.2 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi15,75854%+3 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust12.6 mi3,96360%+8.8 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi73768%+17 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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