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Neurosurgery waiting times at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,996 people were on the Neurosurgery at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Neurosurgery across England

People waiting
3,996
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.2%
England: 62.8%
Over 52 weeks
17
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

17 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.6 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 5.8% of everyone waiting at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 9.9 percentage points (47% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5.1 points over 3 months (52.1% in March 2026); up 6.1 points over 6 months (51.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.9 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 202547.3%
August 202547.7%
September 202548%
October 202551.8%
November 202551.2%
December 202551.1%
January 202652.4%
February 202652.9%
March 202652.1%
April 202653.5%
May 202654.8%
June 202657.2%

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 Neurosurgery figures at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,12747.3%366
August 20254,25747.7%394
September 20254,20748.0%394
October 20254,08451.8%152
November 20254,00551.2%115
December 20254,03651.1%70
January 20263,94652.4%42
February 20263,89352.9%61
March 20263,67852.1%11
April 20263,76053.5%16
May 20263,92154.8%23
June 20263,99657.2%17

Other NHS trusts offering neurosurgery 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 Neurosurgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust4.5 mi2,80370%+13.2 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust6.3 mi3,03063%+6.2 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust7 mi3,54663%+5.8 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust8.1 mi1,52755%-1.8 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust18.1 mi2,35476%+18.4 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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