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Oral surgery waiting times at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,139 people were on the Oral surgery at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (41%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
1,139
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
40.6%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
8
Median wait
22 wks
Published median for this list

8 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 14.3 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 5.9% of everyone waiting at George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 37.7 percentage points (78% to 41%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 15.7 points over 3 months (56.3% in March 2026); down 26.4 points over 6 months (67.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -37.7 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 202578.3%
August 202574.9%
September 202574.9%
October 202575.3%
November 202573.4%
December 202567%
January 202667.3%
February 202663.6%
March 202656.3%
April 202650.8%
May 202649.5%
June 202640.6%

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 George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202567878.3%2
August 202574274.9%1
September 202575274.9%0
October 202577675.3%2
November 202583573.4%0
December 202592267.0%0
January 202693967.3%2
February 202696863.6%3
March 20261,06156.3%1
April 20261,13650.8%3
May 20261,12949.5%4
June 20261,13940.6%8

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 mi3,38260%+19.8 pp
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust16 mi1,40544%+3.4 pp
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust16.4 mi6,91746%+5 pp
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust17.2 mi6,23877%+36 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust19.9 mi1,17953%+12.7 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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