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Oral surgery waiting times at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 15,505 people were on the Oral surgery at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
15,505
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.4%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
300
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

300 people (1.9%, roughly 1 in 53) 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 9.2% of everyone waiting at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 52.4% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 43.5% 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
52.4%
3 months earlier · May 2026
55.1% then · change to latest -2.7 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
52.8% then · change to latest -0.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
43.5% then · change to latest +8.9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
42.8% then · change to latest +9.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202652.4%15,505
July 202652.3%15,757
June 202653.7%15,758
May 202655.1%15,894
April 202655.1%16,181
March 202654.6%16,408
February 202652.8%16,774
January 202650.7%17,435
December 202547.9%18,067
November 202544.1%18,525
October 202544.5%19,468
September 202544.4%19,439
August 202543.5%19,462
July 202543.6%19,300
June 202541.8%18,859
May 202542.1%19,080
April 202540.2%19,490
March 202540.3%19,436
February 202539.9%19,792
January 202539.2%19,416
December 202439.6%19,342
November 202441.1%20,498
October 202441.3%20,489
September 202441.1%20,405
August 202436.3%18,730
July 202437.1%19,036
June 202440.7%19,438
May 202441.7%19,888
April 202442.8%20,189
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 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
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi1,88446%-6.4 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust6.7 mi77272%+19.2 pp
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust6.7 mi81100%+47.6 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi2,26849%-3.3 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust17.8 mi1,49263%+11.1 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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