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General surgery waiting times at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 7,710 people were on the General surgery at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (58%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
7,710
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.6%
England: 63.2%
Over 52 weeks
283
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

283 people (3.7%, roughly 1 in 27) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.6 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 8.9% of everyone waiting at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for General surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 57.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 59.2% 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
57.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
57.9% then · change to latest -0.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
54.5% then · change to latest +3.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
59.2% then · change to latest -1.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
59% then · change to latest -1.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202657.6%7,710
July 202658.2%7,747
June 202658%7,564
May 202657.9%7,644
April 202657%7,500
March 202656.4%7,179
February 202654.5%7,088
January 202654.6%7,080
December 202557.1%7,339
November 202557.4%7,426
October 202558.6%7,483
September 202559.2%7,603
August 202559.2%7,423
July 202561.1%7,306
June 202561.4%7,132
May 202561.2%7,077
April 202559.4%7,053
March 202558.2%7,195
February 202556.5%7,164
January 202555.9%7,339
December 202457.6%7,393
November 202458%7,396
October 202459.1%7,429
September 202459.6%7,301
August 202458.3%7,189
July 202460%7,191
June 202459.9%7,082
May 202459.6%6,956
April 202459%6,978
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
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust17.5 mi5,84360%+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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