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Plastic surgery waiting times at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,442 people were on the Plastic surgery at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (47%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
1,442
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
47.0%
England: 59.4%
Over 52 weeks
55
Median wait
19 wks
Published median for this list

55 people (3.8%, roughly 1 in 26) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12.4 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; 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 2.2% of everyone waiting at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Plastic surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 47% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 47.3% 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
47%
3 months earlier · May 2026
43.9% then · change to latest +3.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
45% then · change to latest +2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
47.3% then · change to latest -0.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
34.9% then · change to latest +12.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202647%1,442
July 202645.4%1,466
June 202645.6%1,534
May 202643.9%1,527
April 202644.3%1,590
March 202645.8%1,569
February 202645%1,543
January 202646.2%1,603
December 202547.6%1,600
November 202548%1,539
October 202547.7%1,573
September 202548.4%1,558
August 202547.3%1,525
July 202549.2%1,536
June 202549.8%1,453
May 202549.6%1,431
April 202548%1,426
March 202549.1%1,490
February 202549.1%1,504
January 202548.2%1,517
December 202447.9%1,494
November 202446.8%1,542
October 202444.6%1,645
September 202439.5%1,915
August 202439.8%1,977
July 202438.4%2,033
June 202438%2,053
May 202437.5%2,013
April 202434.9%2,093
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 plastic 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 Plastic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi15263%+15.5 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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