Hospital service waiting times

Oral surgery waiting times at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,303 people were on the Oral surgery at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (48%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting: 3,303; End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks: 48.4%; England: 55%
Over 52 weeks: 135
Median wait: 19 wks; Published median for this list

135 people (4.1%, roughly 1 in 24) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.6 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 3.6% of everyone waiting at Oxford University Hospitals 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 8.7 percentage points (40% to 48%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.9 points over 3 months (52.3% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (49.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.7 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
Month	Within 18 weeks
July 2025	39.7%
August 2025	37.5%
September 2025	38.6%
October 2025	43%
November 2025	44.5%
December 2025	49.3%
January 2026	47.8%
February 2026	50.8%
March 2026	52.3%
April 2026	47.6%
May 2026	49.5%
June 2026	48.4%

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 Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Month	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Over 52 weeks
July 2025	3,461	39.7%	349
August 2025	3,283	37.5%	339
September 2025	3,239	38.6%	291
October 2025	3,071	43.0%	197
November 2025	2,767	44.5%	161
December 2025	2,984	49.3%	164
January 2026	2,884	47.8%	151
February 2026	3,003	50.8%	131
March 2026	3,062	52.3%	126
April 2026	3,078	47.6%	115
May 2026	3,285	49.5%	137
June 2026	3,303	48.4%	135

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
Trust	Distance	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Difference
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	24.3 mi	489	87%	+38.5 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.

Related guides on this site

Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
What happens if the NHS misses the 18-week target
Background on what happens when the 18-week standard is not met.
How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
What happens after 52 weeks on a waiting list
Background on how year-plus waits are treated in NHS reporting.

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