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Oral surgery waiting times at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 780 people were on the Oral surgery at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
780
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.9%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.1 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 1.4% of everyone waiting at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 6.9 percentage points (67% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 5.2 points over 3 months (65.1% in May 2026); down 7.1 points over 6 months (67.0% in February 2026); down 7.8 points over 12 months (67.7% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance deteriorating · -6.9 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202566.8%
August 202567.7%
September 202567.2%
October 202567.9%
November 202566%
December 202567%
January 202669.9%
February 202667%
March 202666%
April 202666.1%
May 202665.1%
June 202661.3%
July 202662.8%
August 202659.9%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Oral surgery figures at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202554666.8%1
August 202549667.7%1
September 202546467.2%0
October 202545567.9%0
November 202546266.0%0
December 202552167.0%0
January 202655969.9%0
February 202658567.0%0
March 202661566.0%0
April 202671366.1%0
May 202673765.1%0
June 202676061.3%0
July 202676662.8%0
August 202678059.9%1

Other NHS trusts offering oral surgery within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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