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General surgery waiting times at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,166 people were on the General surgery at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
5,166
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.1%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
211
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

211 people (4.1%, roughly 1 in 24) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 12% of everyone waiting at Great Western Hospitals 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 4 percentage points (64% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (60.8% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (61.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4 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 202564.1%
August 202564.1%
September 202564.8%
October 202563.8%
November 202564.7%
December 202561.8%
January 202661.8%
February 202661.6%
March 202660.8%
April 202660.6%
May 202660.5%
June 202660.1%

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 Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,32264.1%139
August 20254,57764.1%159
September 20254,63564.8%143
October 20254,74163.8%137
November 20254,85464.7%131
December 20255,00361.8%139
January 20265,49761.8%146
February 20265,45561.6%174
March 20264,74860.8%152
April 20265,29360.6%189
May 20265,27760.5%229
June 20265,16660.1%211

Other NHS trusts offering general 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.

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