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General surgery waiting times at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,293 people were on the General surgery at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (50%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
1,293
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
50.3%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
5
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

5 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12.7 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 5.7% of everyone waiting at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (49% to 50%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (49.9% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (52.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +1.6 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 202548.7%
August 202547.1%
September 202551.3%
October 202551.2%
November 202553.8%
December 202552%
January 202650.5%
February 202648.8%
March 202649.9%
April 202648.1%
May 202650.8%
June 202650.3%

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 Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,09848.7%30
August 20251,09347.1%34
September 20251,12251.3%27
October 20251,08151.2%20
November 20251,08453.8%20
December 20251,09052.0%27
January 20261,19350.5%21
February 20261,19548.8%23
March 20261,28549.9%16
April 20261,25548.1%5
May 20261,25550.8%6
June 20261,29350.3%5

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
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust20.7 mi1,10694%+43.5 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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