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Plastic surgery waiting times at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 467 people were on the Plastic surgery at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
467
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.9%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
17
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

17 people (3.6%, roughly 1 in 28) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 0.8% 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 improved by 6.7 percentage points (55% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 7.3 points over 3 months (54.6% in March 2026); up 5.4 points over 6 months (56.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.7 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
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202555.2%
August 202556.2%
September 202557%
October 202555.9%
November 202554.1%
December 202556.5%
January 202660.2%
February 202657.1%
March 202654.6%
April 202652.2%
May 202658.1%
June 202661.9%

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 Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202565255.2%21
August 202562656.2%25
September 202559657.0%24
October 202555655.9%21
November 202549254.1%15
December 202548556.5%17
January 202651860.2%15
February 202648357.1%11
March 202644754.6%21
April 202645452.2%19
May 202648058.1%12
June 202646761.9%17

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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