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Plastic surgery waiting times at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,760 people were on the Plastic surgery at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
2,760
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.6%
England: 59.4%
Over 52 weeks
125
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

125 people (4.5%, roughly 1 in 22) 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 3.1% of everyone waiting at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Plastic surgery at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 59.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 50.1% 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
59.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
59.8% then · change to latest -0.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
51.2% then · change to latest +8.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
50.1% then · change to latest +9.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
39.9% then · change to latest +19.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202659.6%2,760
July 202658%2,651
June 202658.7%2,389
May 202659.8%2,396
April 202658%2,415
March 202652.5%2,558
February 202651.2%2,597
January 202652.2%2,595
December 202552.8%2,617
November 202555.8%2,642
October 202555%2,713
September 202554.9%2,683
August 202550.1%2,733
July 202551.1%2,845
June 202547.9%2,893
May 202547.6%2,960
April 202546.1%2,875
March 202546.4%2,957
February 202545.4%2,859
January 202545.6%2,926
December 202444.8%2,967
November 202441.4%3,028
October 202439.6%3,171
September 202438.8%3,219
August 202439.3%3,278
July 202437.2%3,249
June 202440.5%3,384
May 202441.4%3,378
April 202439.9%3,359
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 plastic 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 Plastic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust8 mi1,84776%+15.9 pp
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.1 mi1,04666%+6.8 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust15.9 mi52964%+4.6 pp
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust19.1 mi6692%+32.8 pp
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.1 mi25262%+2.3 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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