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Oral surgery waiting times at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,162 people were on the Oral surgery at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (46%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
1,162
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
46.4%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
71
Median wait
21 wks
Published median for this list

71 people (6.1%, roughly 1 in 16) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.4 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 2% of everyone waiting at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 46.4% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 21.9% 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
46.4%
3 months earlier · May 2026
41.1% then · change to latest +5.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
37.3% then · change to latest +9.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
21.9% then · change to latest +24.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
47.9% then · change to latest -1.5 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202646.4%1,162
July 202642.8%1,090
June 202636.7%962
May 202641.1%1,076
April 202641.4%1,263
March 202642.8%1,261
February 202637.3%1,168
January 202634.7%1,327
December 202531%1,501
November 202527.4%1,418
October 202524.9%1,570
September 202521.7%1,500
August 202521.9%1,610
July 202517.6%1,967
June 202525.6%2,369
May 202535.6%2,722
April 202539.7%3,141
March 202545.5%3,607
February 202548.6%3,602
January 202550.3%3,305
December 202450.1%3,209
November 202450.7%3,145
October 202446.7%3,010
September 202442.8%2,995
August 202444.5%2,990
July 202444.8%2,925
June 202447.8%3,042
May 202448.4%3,062
April 202447.9%3,136
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 oral 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 Oral surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi7,26442%-3.9 pp
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust16.6 mi1,61551%+4.1 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust20.7 mi2,84252%+5.8 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust22.9 mi3,63544%-2 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.4 mi1,56254%+7.3 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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