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Oral surgery waiting times at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,170 people were on the Oral surgery at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (73%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
1,170
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
73.3%
England: 53.8%
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 August 2026.

This hospital's published position is 19.5 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 2.4% of everyone waiting at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 73.3% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 66.7% 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
73.3%
3 months earlier · May 2026
75.3% then · change to latest -1.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
70.2% then · change to latest +3.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
66.7% then · change to latest +6.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
76.1% then · change to latest -2.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202673.3%1,170
July 202672.5%1,162
June 202675%1,102
May 202675.3%986
April 202674.4%939
March 202676.3%995
February 202670.2%883
January 202672.2%905
December 202568.6%919
November 202566.4%843
October 202564.6%836
September 202565.1%832
August 202566.7%901
July 202570.2%851
June 202573.2%923
May 202569.9%904
April 202565.2%991
March 202561.1%907
February 202564.2%965
January 202572.1%1,070
December 202474.1%1,035
November 202470.8%1,026
October 202472.1%1,020
September 202468.2%895
August 202475.3%976
July 202475.2%972
June 202473.9%1,011
May 202478%990
April 202476.1%998
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
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust9.4 mi2,84252%-21.1 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.7 mi2,18551%-21.9 pp
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust14.2 mi8,20246%-27 pp
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust17.2 mi7,26442%-30.8 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust20.1 mi4,67145%-27.9 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.

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