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Oral surgery waiting times at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 5,032 people were on the Oral surgery at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
5,032
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.9%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 15.1 percentage points better than 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 8.2% of everyone waiting at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 68.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 66.5% 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
68.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
65.5% then · change to latest +3.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
61.8% then · change to latest +7.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
66.5% then · change to latest +2.4 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
65.7% then · change to latest +3.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202668.9%5,032
July 202669.6%5,156
June 202668.2%5,083
May 202665.5%4,919
April 202663.5%4,837
March 202663.9%4,815
February 202661.8%4,775
January 202662.7%4,669
December 202565.6%4,724
November 202565.1%4,570
October 202566.9%4,667
September 202567.6%4,457
August 202566.5%4,310
July 202565.8%4,126
June 202568.8%3,936
May 202568.2%3,963
April 202566.9%4,137
March 202564.7%4,327
February 202564.3%4,316
January 202563.6%4,241
December 202462.7%4,173
November 202463.6%4,142
October 202462.5%4,281
September 202460.7%4,140
August 202461.3%4,251
July 202463%4,218
June 202465.5%4,064
May 202467.6%4,112
April 202465.7%4,037
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 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
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust8.8 mi1,58465%-4.4 pp
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi2,16868%-1.4 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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