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Oral surgery waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 7,057 people were on the Oral surgery at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 3 in 10 people (35%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
7,057
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
34.7%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
1,018
Median wait
28 wks
Published median for this list

1,018 people (14.4%, roughly 1 in 7) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 20.3 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 4.3% of everyone waiting at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 2.5 percentage points (37% to 35%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (33.3% in March 2026); up 3.2 points over 6 months (31.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -2.5 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 202537.2%
August 202535%
September 202533.1%
October 202535.2%
November 202534.1%
December 202531.5%
January 202631.3%
February 202633.4%
March 202633.3%
April 202635.2%
May 202635.5%
June 202634.7%

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 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,72537.2%679
August 20256,23235.0%853
September 20256,39133.1%1,051
October 20256,75935.2%1,191
November 20256,81234.1%1,224
December 20256,80531.5%1,309
January 20266,46731.3%1,336
February 20266,40033.4%1,167
March 20266,85533.3%1,142
April 20267,00335.2%1,077
May 20266,99235.5%1,028
June 20267,05734.7%1,018

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
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust21.9 mi2,38680%+45.6 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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