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

At the end of June 2026, 5,693 people were on the Oral surgery at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (80%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
5,693
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
80.2%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.0%) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 25.2 percentage points better than 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 5.2% of everyone waiting at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 9.6 percentage points (71% to 80%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (81.0% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (79.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.6 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 202570.6%
August 202572.4%
September 202573.2%
October 202575.5%
November 202578.4%
December 202579%
January 202679.6%
February 202681.7%
March 202681%
April 202680.4%
May 202680.1%
June 202680.2%

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 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,12670.6%5
August 20255,51772.4%2
September 20255,55073.2%0
October 20255,69775.5%1
November 20255,70178.4%2
December 20255,97279.0%6
January 20265,76379.6%0
February 20265,67981.7%1
March 20265,73081.0%2
April 20265,85180.4%1
May 20266,07680.1%1
June 20265,69380.2%2

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 College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.1 mi7,01770%-10.1 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi9,05659%-21.2 pp
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust2.4 mi15291%+11.3 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.7 mi51183%+2.4 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.9 mi2,16544%-36.4 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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