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General surgery waiting times at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,392 people were on the General surgery at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
4,392
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.5%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
96
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

96 people (2.2%, roughly 1 in 45) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.5 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 6% of everyone waiting at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital 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 2.3 percentage points (54% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (56.9% in March 2026); up 2.8 points over 6 months (53.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2.3 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 202554.2%
August 202555.4%
September 202556.8%
October 202555.2%
November 202554.2%
December 202553.7%
January 202653.2%
February 202656.9%
March 202656.9%
April 202655.2%
May 202654.6%
June 202656.5%

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 General surgery figures at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,69354.2%141
August 20254,80855.4%118
September 20254,97656.8%129
October 20255,00455.2%148
November 20254,83054.2%141
December 20254,77153.7%139
January 20264,67153.2%155
February 20264,59856.9%136
March 20264,05256.9%92
April 20264,63855.2%111
May 20264,50254.6%109
June 20264,39256.5%96

Other NHS trusts offering general 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 General surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust0.6 mi12390%+33.7 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.3 mi2,20160%+3.5 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.9 mi1,58556%-0.8 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi5884%+28 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi4,68540%-16.7 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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