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Plastic surgery waiting times at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 585 people were on the Plastic surgery at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (59%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
585
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.0%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

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 0.9% of everyone waiting at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 24.7 percentage points (34% to 59%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4.1 points over 3 months (63.1% in March 2026); down 4.2 points over 6 months (63.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +24.7 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 202534.3%
August 202531.9%
September 202544.1%
October 202554.5%
November 202562.6%
December 202563.2%
January 202660.9%
February 202658.4%
March 202663.1%
April 202662.7%
May 202666.2%
June 202659%

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 Plastic surgery figures at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202551034.3%5
August 202544531.9%1
September 202557644.1%1
October 202565954.5%2
November 202577262.6%0
December 202575063.2%0
January 202671460.9%1
February 202669758.4%2
March 202662463.1%0
April 202661462.7%0
May 202664266.2%0
June 202658559.0%0

Other NHS trusts offering plastic 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 Plastic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust2.7 mi69864%+5.1 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust7.1 mi1,93065%+5.8 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust9.7 mi12465%+6.3 pp
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust19.9 mi10993%+33.7 pp
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust20.8 mi45641%-18 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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