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General surgery waiting times at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,773 people were on the General surgery at Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
3,773
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.6%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
32
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

32 people (0.8%, roughly 1 in 125) 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 9.5% of everyone waiting at Royal United Hospitals Bath 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 (59% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.8 points over 3 months (63.4% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (57.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.7 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 202558.9%
August 202558.1%
September 202560%
October 202561.8%
November 202559.9%
December 202557.8%
January 202660.1%
February 202661.8%
March 202663.4%
April 202662.9%
May 202661.6%
June 202659.6%

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 United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,33658.9%35
August 20253,14158.1%55
September 20253,17760.0%66
October 20253,55361.8%78
November 20253,55859.9%81
December 20253,57857.8%72
January 20263,92560.1%55
February 20263,82661.8%37
March 20263,94563.4%36
April 20264,00662.9%36
May 20263,83961.6%22
June 20263,77359.6%32

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
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust9.9 mi11177%+17 pp
North Bristol NHS Trust11.2 mi66872%+12.7 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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