Hospital service waiting times

Oral surgery waiting times at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,589 people were on the Oral surgery at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 3 in 10 people (34%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting: 4,589; End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks: 33.6%; England: 55%
Over 52 weeks: 315
Median wait: 26 wks; Published median for this list

315 people (6.9%, roughly 1 in 14) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 21.4 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 5.6% of everyone waiting at East Kent Hospitals University 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 10.9 percentage points (45% to 34%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 7.4 points over 3 months (41.0% in March 2026); down 5.7 points over 6 months (39.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -10.9 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
Month	Within 18 weeks
July 2025	44.5%
August 2025	43.6%
September 2025	42.5%
October 2025	40%
November 2025	41.2%
December 2025	39.3%
January 2026	37.6%
February 2026	38.1%
March 2026	41%
April 2026	39.3%
May 2026	37%
June 2026	33.6%

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 Oral surgery figures at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Month	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Over 52 weeks
July 2025	6,010	44.5%	520
August 2025	5,984	43.6%	557
September 2025	6,110	42.5%	562
October 2025	5,896	40.0%	437
November 2025	6,083	41.2%	337
December 2025	6,005	39.3%	357
January 2026	5,728	37.6%	306
February 2026	5,380	38.1%	251
March 2026	5,245	41.0%	187
April 2026	5,261	39.3%	250
May 2026	5,080	37.0%	274
June 2026	4,589	33.6%	315

Other NHS trusts offering oral surgery within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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.

Related guides on this site

Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
What happens if the NHS misses the 18-week target
Background on what happens when the 18-week standard is not met.
How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
What happens after 52 weeks on a waiting list
Background on how year-plus waits are treated in NHS reporting.

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