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Oral surgery waiting times at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 8,463 people were on the Oral surgery at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (45%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
8,463
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
45.4%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
8
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

8 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.6 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 10.4% of everyone waiting at London North West University Healthcare 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 15.4 percentage points (61% to 45%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 17.5 points over 3 months (62.9% in March 2026); down 17.4 points over 6 months (62.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -15.4 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 202560.8%
August 202561.5%
September 202561.3%
October 202563%
November 202563.3%
December 202562.8%
January 202667%
February 202664.7%
March 202662.9%
April 202655.9%
May 202647.8%
June 202645.4%

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 London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,12460.8%72
August 20256,11761.5%43
September 20255,93961.3%30
October 20256,25463.0%48
November 20256,81163.3%35
December 20257,06062.8%36
January 20268,02467.0%34
February 20268,37064.7%23
March 20268,41662.9%9
April 20268,66255.9%13
May 20268,48547.8%8
June 20268,46345.4%8

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
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust6.2 mi2,80357%+11.2 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust6.9 mi4,85660%+14.5 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6.9 mi2,11752%+6.6 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust7.5 mi51183%+37.2 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust7.9 mi12369%+23.7 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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