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Oral surgery waiting times at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,304 people were on the Oral surgery at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (43%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
4,304
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
43.3%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
405
Median wait
21 wks
Published median for this list

405 people (9.4%, roughly 1 in 11) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.7 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 7.5% of everyone waiting at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (43% to 43%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.2 points over 3 months (46.5% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (41.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.3 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 202543%
August 202541.1%
September 202542%
October 202540.3%
November 202541.7%
December 202541.4%
January 202641.6%
February 202642%
March 202646.5%
April 202644.8%
May 202645.1%
June 202643.3%

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 Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,95143.0%281
August 20253,87441.1%307
September 20253,97942.0%406
October 20254,00440.3%476
November 20253,93641.7%387
December 20253,60841.4%236
January 20263,63541.6%241
February 20263,79142.0%271
March 20263,22046.5%253
April 20264,11744.8%355
May 20264,24445.1%360
June 20264,30443.3%405

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
Isle of Wight NHS Trust14 mi54349%+5.7 pp
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust16.9 mi2,49653%+9.6 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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