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Plastic surgery waiting times at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 6,137 people were on the Plastic surgery at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
6,137
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.3%
England: 59.4%
Over 52 weeks
159
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

159 people (2.6%, roughly 1 in 38) 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 27.6% of everyone waiting at Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Plastic surgery, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Plastic surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 60.3% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 61.4% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
60.3%
3 months earlier · May 2026
56.4% then · change to latest +3.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
53.8% then · change to latest +6.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
61.4% then · change to latest -1.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
52.8% then · change to latest +7.5 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202660.3%6,137
July 202659.4%6,032
June 202658.5%5,837
May 202656.4%5,679
April 202655.4%5,593
March 202654.6%5,637
February 202653.8%5,548
January 202653.7%5,696
December 202555.9%5,874
November 202558.9%5,923
October 202559.3%5,749
September 202562.1%5,853
August 202561.4%5,636
July 202562.4%5,550
June 202560.9%5,251
May 202558.4%5,145
April 202554.9%5,272
March 202552%5,748
February 202551.4%5,937
January 202548.5%6,229
December 202449.5%6,258
November 202451.5%6,234
October 202452.4%6,155
September 202454.2%5,939
August 202456.1%5,846
July 202457.8%5,883
June 202457.6%5,864
May 202455.9%5,805
April 202452.8%5,750
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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 mi8460%-0.8 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.5 mi1,53570%+9.3 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust22 mi2378%+18 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust22.8 mi31592%+31.4 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.3 mi5677%+16.5 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.

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