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Oral surgery waiting times at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 905 people were on the Oral surgery at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 3 in 10 people (26%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
905
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
25.9%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
4
Median wait
26 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 27.9 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 4.7% of everyone waiting at George Eliot Hospital 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 deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 25.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 74.9% 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
25.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
49.5% then · change to latest -23.7 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
63.6% then · change to latest -37.8 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
74.9% then · change to latest -49.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
50.4% then · change to latest -24.5 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202625.9%905
July 202633.3%1,068
June 202640.6%1,139
May 202649.5%1,129
April 202650.8%1,136
March 202656.3%1,061
February 202663.6%968
January 202667.3%939
December 202567%922
November 202573.4%835
October 202575.3%776
September 202574.9%752
August 202574.9%742
July 202578.3%678
June 202598.9%91
May 2025Not available23
April 2025Not available16
March 2025Not available11
February 2025Not available14
January 2025Not available17
December 2024Not available25
November 202482.5%63
October 202478.3%83
September 202475.6%82
August 202476.5%98
July 202473.9%115
June 202473.4%158
May 202454.2%214
April 202450.4%256
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
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust6.5 mi3,22361%+34.8 pp
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust16 mi1,31039%+13.3 pp
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust16.4 mi6,79645%+19.3 pp
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust17.2 mi6,35779%+53.1 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust19.9 mi1,04347%+21.2 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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