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General surgery waiting times at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,566 people were on the General surgery at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (71%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
5,566
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
71.3%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 8.3 percentage points better than 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 11% of everyone waiting at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.8 percentage points (66% to 71%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.7 points over 3 months (75.0% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (69.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.8 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 202565.5%
August 202565.4%
September 202565.9%
October 202567%
November 202568.3%
December 202569.4%
January 202670.5%
February 202672.1%
March 202675%
April 202673.1%
May 202672.2%
June 202671.3%

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 Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,19865.5%0
August 20256,23865.4%0
September 20255,87865.9%0
October 20256,11667.0%0
November 20255,88168.3%0
December 20255,84369.4%0
January 20266,04770.5%0
February 20265,96572.1%0
March 20265,43575.0%0
April 20265,41873.1%0
May 20265,59672.2%0
June 20265,56671.3%0

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
Medway NHS Foundation Trust7.8 mi93968%-3.1 pp
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust14.8 mi7,26457%-13.9 pp
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust21.3 mi8,64648%-23.7 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust24.2 mi7,16853%-18.5 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust24.9 mi6,49269%-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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