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General surgery waiting times at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,685 people were on the General surgery at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (40%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
4,685
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
39.9%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
282
Median wait
24 wks
Published median for this list

282 people (6.0%, roughly 1 in 17) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 23.1 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 5.2% of everyone waiting at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 5.1 percentage points (45% to 40%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (39.9% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (40.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -5.1 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 202545%
August 202544.6%
September 202544.6%
October 202542.6%
November 202542.3%
December 202540.4%
January 202639.8%
February 202638.1%
March 202639.9%
April 202638.2%
May 202639.4%
June 202639.9%

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 King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,83145.0%315
August 20253,97944.6%348
September 20253,92044.6%322
October 20254,75742.6%375
November 20254,84942.3%343
December 20254,97240.4%329
January 20265,10839.8%340
February 20264,97338.1%286
March 20264,79539.9%213
April 20264,55438.2%210
May 20264,53339.4%244
June 20264,68539.9%282

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
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi1,58556%+15.9 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust3.4 mi6,49269%+29.2 pp
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust3.7 mi12390%+50.4 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust3.8 mi4,44866%+25.7 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi4,39257%+16.7 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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