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General surgery waiting times at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 7,392 people were on the General surgery at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
7,392
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.1%
England: 63.2%
Over 52 weeks
467
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

467 people (6.3%, roughly 1 in 16) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.1 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 24.6% of everyone waiting at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

General surgery, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for General surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 56.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 55.4% 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
56.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
55.2% then · change to latest +0.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
48.5% then · change to latest +7.6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
55.4% then · change to latest +0.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
68.5% then · change to latest -12.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202656.1%7,392
July 202656.1%7,336
June 202657.4%7,264
May 202655.2%7,026
April 202652.9%6,550
March 202651.5%6,311
February 202648.5%6,579
January 202649.8%6,823
December 202551.9%7,022
November 202554.8%7,032
October 202556.6%6,943
September 202557.6%7,146
August 202555.4%7,379
July 202554%7,270
June 202552%7,959
May 202552.1%7,710
April 202552.6%7,545
March 202554.9%7,953
February 202556.2%8,084
January 202556.5%7,555
December 202458.7%7,172
November 202460.2%7,148
October 202460.6%6,848
September 202462.1%6,907
August 202462.8%6,726
July 202465.4%6,592
June 202466.7%6,362
May 202468.3%6,343
April 202468.5%6,102
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 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 mi7,14956%+0.4 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust12 mi6,11268%+12.2 pp
Medway NHS Foundation Trust12.8 mi1,04168%+12.4 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust14.7 mi4,70066%+9.8 pp
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust14.8 mi5,83370%+14.2 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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