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General surgery waiting times at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,524 people were on the General surgery at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
2,524
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.6%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
6
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

6 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.6 percentage points better than 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 6.4% of everyone waiting at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 4.8 percentage points (64% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2 points over 3 months (70.6% in March 2026); up 2.7 points over 6 months (65.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.8 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 202563.8%
August 202564.4%
September 202563.7%
October 202563.5%
November 202566.1%
December 202565.9%
January 202665.2%
February 202667.5%
March 202670.6%
April 202668.7%
May 202665.3%
June 202668.6%

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 General surgery figures at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,64763.8%53
August 20252,70464.4%54
September 20252,73963.7%54
October 20252,73163.5%49
November 20253,04266.1%48
December 20252,94165.9%29
January 20262,93365.2%43
February 20262,84067.5%35
March 20262,51170.6%4
April 20262,46168.7%2
May 20262,34665.3%8
June 20262,52468.6%6

Other NHS trusts offering general 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 General surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13 mi1,76265%-3.9 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.8 mi2,09446%-22.9 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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