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Oral surgery waiting times at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 5,055 people were on the Oral surgery at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
5,055
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.0%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
6
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

6 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) 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 3.7% of everyone waiting at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 18 percentage points (75% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4 points over 3 months (61.0% in May 2026); down 4 points over 6 months (61.0% in February 2026); up 7 points over 12 months (50.0% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance deteriorating · -18 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202575%
August 202550%
September 202580%
October 202566.7%
November 202540%
December 202566.7%
January 20260%
February 202661%
March 202663.7%
April 202660.5%
May 202661%
June 202659.9%
July 202658.7%
August 202657%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Oral surgery figures at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 2025475.0%0
August 2025650.0%0
September 2025580.0%0
October 2025366.7%0
November 2025540.0%0
December 2025366.7%0
January 202620.0%0
February 20264,68261.0%44
March 20264,59863.7%12
April 20264,71360.5%33
May 20264,96661.0%20
June 20264,85659.9%17
July 20264,92358.7%9
August 20265,05557.0%6

Other NHS trusts offering oral 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 Oral surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Whittington Health NHS Trust1.5 mi13170%+13.3 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.2 mi7,43570%+12.9 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust2.5 mi67181%+24.3 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi5,81483%+25.6 pp
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi10282%+25.4 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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