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General surgery waiting times at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,648 people were on the General surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
1,648
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.8%
England: 63.2%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) 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 1.5% of everyone waiting at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for General surgery at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 55.8% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 69.8% 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
55.8%
3 months earlier · May 2026
54.2% then · change to latest +1.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
56.3% then · change to latest -0.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
69.8% then · change to latest -14.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
48.2% then · change to latest +7.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202655.8%1,648
July 202655.7%1,628
June 202655.8%1,585
May 202654.2%1,619
April 202654.6%1,547
March 202658.4%1,487
February 202656.3%1,537
January 202655.1%1,558
December 202556.7%1,576
November 202558.2%1,587
October 202557.6%1,591
September 202571.1%1,110
August 202569.8%1,064
July 202573.9%952
June 202576.9%883
May 202575.3%835
April 202573.3%768
March 202574.7%782
February 202569.8%812
January 202567.2%789
December 202461.7%711
November 202457.4%877
October 202454.5%1,030
September 202450.3%1,191
August 202448.5%1,266
July 202449.6%1,270
June 202449.1%1,323
May 202448.7%1,224
April 202448.2%1,191
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 general 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 General surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.1 mi7478%+22.6 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi4,83640%-15.7 pp
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust2.4 mi14888%+32.1 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.7 mi2,23359%+3 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.9 mi4,21759%+3.4 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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