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Plastic surgery waiting times at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,837 people were on the Plastic surgery at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (59%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
5,837
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
58.5%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
161
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

161 people (2.8%, roughly 1 in 36) 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; 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 26.7% of everyone waiting at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 3.9 percentage points (62% to 59%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.9 points over 3 months (54.6% in March 2026); up 2.6 points over 6 months (55.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -3.9 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 202562.4%
August 202561.4%
September 202562.1%
October 202559.3%
November 202558.9%
December 202555.9%
January 202653.7%
February 202653.8%
March 202654.6%
April 202655.4%
May 202656.4%
June 202658.5%

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 Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,55062.4%225
August 20255,63661.4%241
September 20255,85362.1%242
October 20255,74959.3%210
November 20255,92358.9%181
December 20255,87455.9%192
January 20265,69653.7%185
February 20265,54853.8%190
March 20265,63754.6%175
April 20265,59355.4%167
May 20265,67956.4%174
June 20265,83758.5%161

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
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust18.1 mi7559%+0.2 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.5 mi1,50067%+8.6 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust22 mi1675%+16.5 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust22.8 mi24691%+32.6 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.3 mi3876%+17.8 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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