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

At the end of August 2026, 2,100 people were on the Oral surgery at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (43%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,100
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
43.2%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
55
Median wait
22 wks
Published median for this list

55 people (2.6%, roughly 1 in 38) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10.6 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 2.9% of everyone waiting at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation 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: 43.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 37.4% 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
43.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
42.7% then · change to latest +0.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
39.8% then · change to latest +3.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
37.4% then · change to latest +5.9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
80% then · change to latest -36.8 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202643.2%2,100
July 202644.1%2,166
June 202643.8%2,165
May 202642.7%2,224
April 202640.2%2,154
March 202639.5%2,138
February 202639.8%2,136
January 202642.2%2,076
December 202547.8%1,598
November 202541.3%1,640
October 202537.3%1,645
September 202540.5%1,643
August 202537.4%1,667
July 202540.7%1,669
June 202548.6%1,684
May 202552.8%1,563
April 202555.6%1,518
March 202559.7%1,527
February 202561.1%1,390
January 202559.9%1,334
December 202463.8%1,235
November 202470%1,134
October 202472.2%1,018
September 202477.2%980
August 202479.5%930
July 202477.1%839
June 202480.2%912
May 202480.1%886
April 202480%970
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
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust0.6 mi10282%+39.1 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.3 mi67181%+38 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.9 mi5,81483%+39.3 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi7,43570%+26.7 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi8,86558%+15.2 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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