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General surgery waiting times at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,311 people were on the General surgery at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (48%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
1,311
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
47.7%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
159
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

159 people (12.1%, roughly 1 in 8) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 15.2 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 4.9% of everyone waiting at Chesterfield Royal 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 stayed broadly stable (48% to 48%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4.3 points over 3 months (52.0% in March 2026); up 2.9 points over 6 months (44.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -0.5 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 202548.2%
August 202551.4%
September 202553%
October 202550%
November 202542.7%
December 202544.8%
January 202645.6%
February 202644.9%
March 202652%
April 202646.9%
May 202647%
June 202647.7%

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 General surgery figures at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,76048.2%250
August 20251,71251.4%221
September 20251,73953.0%206
October 20251,66950.0%229
November 20251,54542.7%289
December 20251,45744.8%220
January 20261,44845.6%213
February 20261,46044.9%230
March 20261,39452.0%151
April 20261,42846.9%165
May 20261,39947.0%202
June 20261,31147.7%159

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
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust9.7 mi4,33256%+8.7 pp
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust12.5 mi1,87858%+10.5 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi86059%+11.4 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.8 mi2,07369%+21.2 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust23 mi4,58558%+10.1 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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