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General surgery waiting times at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,901 people were on the General surgery at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (82%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
2,901
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
81.5%
England: 63.2%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.0%) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.3 percentage points better than 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 8.4% of everyone waiting at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for General surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 81.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 80% 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
81.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
85.6% then · change to latest -4 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
84.6% then · change to latest -3.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
80% then · change to latest +1.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
85.3% then · change to latest -3.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202681.5%2,901
July 202684.3%2,834
June 202686.3%2,925
May 202685.6%2,824
April 202685.3%2,684
March 202684.5%3,012
February 202684.6%2,934
January 202686.9%2,990
December 202583.4%2,779
November 202580.7%2,580
October 202578.5%2,588
September 202580.5%2,712
August 202580%2,794
July 202580.1%2,833
June 202579.7%2,752
May 202578.8%2,708
April 202576.5%2,684
March 202575.5%2,561
February 202578.8%2,576
January 202579.5%2,558
December 202480.7%2,313
November 202476.9%2,304
October 202478.8%2,170
September 202480.1%2,180
August 202478.1%2,060
July 202481.7%2,071
June 202483.4%2,231
May 202484.2%2,201
April 202485.3%2,130
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 general 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 General surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust13 mi36976%-5.1 pp
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.4 mi2,78443%-38.6 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust19.3 mi35776%-5 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust20.6 mi2,47057%-24 pp
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust21 mi3,04778%-3.8 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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