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Oral surgery waiting times at James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 901 people were on the Oral surgery at James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
901
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.8%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
4
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

4 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) 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; 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 2.9% of everyone waiting at James Paget University 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 improved by 7.9 percentage points (47% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 10.1 points over 3 months (44.7% in March 2026); up 8.3 points over 6 months (46.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.9 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 202546.9%
August 202546.8%
September 202546.2%
October 202548.5%
November 202548.2%
December 202546.5%
January 202646.6%
February 202644.8%
March 202644.7%
April 202647.6%
May 202651.4%
June 202654.8%

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 James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202585946.9%20
August 202586646.8%12
September 202589746.2%26
October 202592748.5%37
November 202593248.2%28
December 202590146.5%29
January 202688946.6%42
February 202681744.8%35
March 202686344.7%17
April 202687847.6%26
May 202689551.4%18
June 202690154.8%4

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
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi1,83168%+13.5 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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