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General surgery waiting times at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,247 people were on the General surgery at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
4,247
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.2%
England: 63.2%
Over 52 weeks
52
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

52 people (1.2%, roughly 1 in 83) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8 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 12.7% of everyone waiting at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

General surgery, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for General surgery at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 55.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 65.5% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
55.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
57.8% then · change to latest -2.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
59.6% then · change to latest -4.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
65.5% then · change to latest -10.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
59.1% then · change to latest -3.9 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202655.2%4,247
July 202655.9%4,385
June 202656.4%4,332
May 202657.8%4,238
April 202659.2%4,076
March 202659.5%3,971
February 202659.6%4,017
January 202659.9%4,022
December 202561.6%4,019
November 202564.3%3,985
October 202565.1%4,025
September 202566.5%4,028
August 202565.5%3,931
July 202565.6%3,963
June 202566.8%3,841
May 202564.7%3,907
April 202563.2%4,010
March 202564.1%4,190
February 202561.7%4,061
January 202562.7%4,085
December 202462.3%4,152
November 202462.8%4,227
October 202462.7%4,387
September 202461.8%4,369
August 202461.4%4,404
July 202461.7%4,320
June 202460.6%4,395
May 202460.6%4,471
April 202459.1%4,496
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust9.7 mi1,30042%-12.9 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust13.3 mi91654%-1.5 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust19.4 mi4,84258%+2.4 pp
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust19.8 mi1,82257%+2.2 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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