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General surgery waiting times at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,989 people were on the General surgery at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
1,989
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.1%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
22
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

22 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) 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 4.6% of everyone waiting at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 3.2 percentage points (63% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.5 points over 3 months (62.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (61.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -3.2 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 202563.3%
August 202562.8%
September 202562.8%
October 202564.3%
November 202564.5%
December 202561.8%
January 202661.2%
February 202660.3%
March 202662.6%
April 202661%
May 202659.9%
June 202660.1%

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 General surgery figures at Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,78963.3%21
August 20251,76762.8%10
September 20251,76262.8%17
October 20251,80964.3%10
November 20251,85464.5%7
December 20251,97561.8%11
January 20262,01261.2%11
February 20262,02560.3%11
March 20262,01962.6%8
April 20262,00761.0%6
May 20261,95759.9%9
June 20261,98960.1%22

Other NHS trusts offering general 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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