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Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 30,107 people were on the Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South East · ODS code RN7

People waiting (all services)
30,107
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.0%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
882
Services reported
10
with people currently waiting

882 people (2.9%, roughly 1 in 34) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
General surgery7,39256%63.2%467+7.6 pp
Orthopaedics5,00351%60.9%262+2.4 pp
Gynaecology4,59556%59.6%128+4.5 pp
Urology3,11170%64.8%14+5 pp
Gastroenterology2,20266%69.7%0-1.3 pp
Cardiology1,97561%67.9%4-1.6 pp
Neurology1,27566%62.3%0-12.6 pp
Respiratory medicine1,13168%74.1%0-14.5 pp
General medicine72468%72.3%0+6.9 pp
Elderly medicine37889%84.3%0+3.1 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (60% to 61%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (61.6% in May 2026); up 2 points over 6 months (59.0% in February 2026); broadly unchanged over 12 months (60.4% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +0.9 points

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

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202560.1%
August 202560.4%
September 202561.9%
October 202562%
November 202561.1%
December 202560.1%
January 202659%
February 202659%
March 202661.3%
April 202661.2%
May 202661.6%
June 202661%
July 202660.1%
August 202661%

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 all-services figures for Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202532,86660.1%1,058
August 202532,69560.4%1,219
September 202531,97961.9%1,103
October 202531,44862.0%1,002
November 202531,76261.1%1,021
December 202531,77560.1%908
January 202630,88659.0%913
February 202630,71959.0%795
March 202629,57161.3%349
April 202630,53561.2%413
May 202631,40561.6%671
June 202630,46161.0%846
July 202629,97260.1%851
August 202630,10761.0%882

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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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