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Oral surgery waiting times at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,950 people were on the Oral surgery at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (43%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
2,950
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
43.2%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
153
Median wait
21 wks
Published median for this list

153 people (5.2%, roughly 1 in 19) 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 8.1% of everyone waiting at Croydon Health Services 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 deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has deteriorated 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 52.3% 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
36.7% then · change to latest +6.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
35.5% then · change to latest +7.7 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
52.3% then · change to latest -9.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
57.6% then · change to latest -14.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202643.2%2,950
July 202645.3%2,943
June 202647.3%2,879
May 202636.7%2,394
April 202632%2,247
March 202638.8%2,492
February 202635.5%2,679
January 202641.2%2,912
December 202543.2%3,030
November 202548.1%3,144
October 202550.5%3,016
September 202550.1%2,817
August 202552.3%2,722
July 202552.7%2,624
June 202556%2,540
May 202558.6%2,451
April 202559.4%2,354
March 202562.3%2,302
February 202565.8%2,170
January 202567.8%2,090
December 202470.4%1,948
November 202472.3%1,899
October 202469.7%1,832
September 202465.5%1,720
August 202462.9%1,670
July 202461.4%1,877
June 202460.3%1,928
May 202461.1%2,006
April 202457.6%2,048
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
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust3.3 mi2,05766%+22.7 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi1,50060%+16.8 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust5.5 mi8,86558%+15.2 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust7.3 mi2,10043%0 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust7.5 mi5,81483%+39.4 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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