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Oral surgery waiting times at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 15,758 people were on the Oral surgery at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
15,758
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
53.7%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
436
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

436 people (2.8%, roughly 1 in 36) 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 9.4% of everyone waiting at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 10.1 percentage points (44% to 54%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (54.6% in March 2026); up 5.8 points over 6 months (47.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +10.1 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 202543.6%
August 202543.5%
September 202544.4%
October 202544.5%
November 202544.1%
December 202547.9%
January 202650.7%
February 202652.8%
March 202654.6%
April 202655.1%
May 202655.1%
June 202653.7%

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 Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202519,30043.6%1,009
August 202519,46243.5%997
September 202519,43944.4%982
October 202519,46844.5%946
November 202518,52544.1%951
December 202518,06747.9%536
January 202617,43550.7%475
February 202616,77452.8%375
March 202616,40854.6%332
April 202616,18155.1%398
May 202615,89455.1%416
June 202615,75853.7%436

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 mi1,85448%-5.6 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust6.7 mi73768%+14 pp
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust6.7 mi34100%+46.3 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi2,39251%-3 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust17.8 mi1,38162%+8.2 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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