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General surgery waiting times at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 7,264 people were on the General surgery at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
7,264
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.4%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
402
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

402 people (5.5%, roughly 1 in 18) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.5 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 23.8% of everyone waiting at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.4 percentage points (54% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5.9 points over 3 months (51.5% in March 2026); up 5.5 points over 6 months (51.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.4 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 202554%
August 202555.4%
September 202557.6%
October 202556.6%
November 202554.8%
December 202551.9%
January 202649.8%
February 202648.5%
March 202651.5%
April 202652.9%
May 202655.2%
June 202657.4%

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 Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,27054.0%477
August 20257,37955.4%558
September 20257,14657.6%492
October 20256,94356.6%425
November 20257,03254.8%402
December 20257,02251.9%391
January 20266,82349.8%360
February 20266,57948.5%308
March 20266,31151.5%124
April 20266,55052.9%169
May 20267,02655.2%272
June 20267,26457.4%402

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
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust9.9 mi7,16853%-4.6 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust12 mi6,49269%+11.6 pp
Medway NHS Foundation Trust12.8 mi93968%+10.8 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust14.7 mi4,44866%+8.1 pp
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust14.8 mi5,56671%+13.9 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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