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General surgery waiting times at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,077 people were on the General surgery at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
4,077
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.3%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
6
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 5.3 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; 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 7.5% of everyone waiting at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 7.6 percentage points (76% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (67.7% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (68.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -7.6 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 202575.9%
August 202574.7%
September 202573.5%
October 202572.8%
November 202570.1%
December 202568%
January 202667.5%
February 202666.7%
March 202667.7%
April 202667.9%
May 202668.3%
June 202668.3%

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 Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,21275.9%2
August 20253,22074.7%1
September 20253,29973.5%1
October 20253,37472.8%2
November 20253,34670.1%2
December 20253,49068.0%4
January 20263,44567.5%15
February 20263,63666.7%22
March 20263,83667.7%4
April 20263,93567.9%6
May 20263,91968.3%8
June 20264,07768.3%6

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
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi1,87858%-10.1 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust16.2 mi2,07369%+0.6 pp
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust19.2 mi1,76364%-4.7 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.5 mi1,31148%-20.6 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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