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

At the end of June 2026, 6,613 people were on the Plastic surgery at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (45%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
6,613
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
44.9%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
649
Median wait
21 wks
Published median for this list

649 people (9.8%, roughly 1 in 10) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 14.4 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 4% 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 7.6 percentage points (53% to 45%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (45.8% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (46.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -7.6 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 202552.5%
August 202551.5%
September 202550.4%
October 202544.2%
November 202548.5%
December 202546%
January 202646.2%
February 202648.6%
March 202645.8%
April 202641.5%
May 202644.2%
June 202644.9%

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 Plastic surgery figures at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,84852.5%400
August 20256,05451.5%446
September 20256,37350.4%565
October 20255,93044.2%589
November 20256,68748.5%507
December 20256,54646.0%412
January 20266,35546.2%413
February 20266,30748.6%364
March 20266,41645.8%422
April 20266,44141.5%513
May 20266,30944.2%581
June 20266,61344.9%649

Other NHS trusts offering plastic surgery within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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