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General surgery waiting times at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,105 people were on the General surgery at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (42%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
4,105
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
41.7%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
189
Median wait
22 wks
Published median for this list

189 people (4.6%, roughly 1 in 22) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 21.3 percentage points behind 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 2.9% of everyone waiting at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (41% to 42%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4.8 points over 3 months (46.5% in March 2026); down 4.6 points over 6 months (46.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.6 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 202541.1%
August 202542.9%
September 202543.9%
October 202543.9%
November 202543.5%
December 202546.3%
January 202644.7%
February 202643.8%
March 202646.5%
April 202641.5%
May 202641.9%
June 202641.7%

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 Free London NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,33641.1%187
August 20253,37942.9%194
September 20253,43943.9%159
October 20253,58943.9%179
November 20253,74343.5%186
December 20254,07446.3%195
January 20264,21744.7%201
February 20264,23143.8%218
March 20264,10746.5%118
April 20264,25741.5%168
May 20264,30641.9%202
June 20264,10541.7%189

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
Whittington Health NHS Trust1.5 mi4,11063%+21 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.2 mi5884%+42.8 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.5 mi2,20160%+18.3 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi1,58556%+14.1 pp
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi12390%+48.6 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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