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General surgery waiting times at Isle of Wight NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 691 people were on the General surgery at Isle of Wight NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Isle of Wight NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
691
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.2%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10.8 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 5.4% of everyone waiting at Isle of Wight 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 2.2 percentage points (54% to 52%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (50.7% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (52.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -2.2 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 202554.4%
August 202553.6%
September 202553.6%
October 202554.1%
November 202555.1%
December 202552.8%
January 202653.1%
February 202649.6%
March 202650.7%
April 202651.3%
May 202650.7%
June 202652.2%

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 General surgery figures at Isle of Wight NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202585554.4%1
August 202584153.6%0
September 202578053.6%2
October 202579354.1%1
November 202577955.1%3
December 202575252.8%1
January 202674953.1%1
February 202673649.6%8
March 202669150.7%1
April 202670851.3%2
May 202671450.7%8
June 202669152.2%2

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
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust14 mi5,86969%+16.4 pp
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust16.4 mi76557%+4.9 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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