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General surgery waiting times at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,114 people were on the General surgery at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
1,114
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.1%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
96
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

96 people (8.6%, roughly 1 in 12) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.9 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 2.2% of everyone waiting at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare 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 11.7 percentage points (45% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.6 points over 3 months (52.5% in March 2026); up 9.6 points over 6 months (47.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +11.7 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 202545.4%
August 202546.7%
September 202551.4%
October 202549.5%
November 202547.2%
December 202547.5%
January 202647.1%
February 202649.3%
March 202652.5%
April 202652.8%
May 202656%
June 202657.1%

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 Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,39145.4%98
August 20251,41446.7%105
September 20251,29351.4%72
October 20251,27449.5%58
November 20251,18347.2%32
December 20251,18147.5%23
January 20261,06947.1%25
February 20261,05749.3%41
March 202698152.5%55
April 202694052.8%65
May 202699056.0%72
June 20261,11457.1%96

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
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust11.2 mi2,56061%+3.8 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust12 mi2,38069%+12.3 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.3 mi1,15346%-11.2 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust14.5 mi1,23551%-6.4 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust17.3 mi6,49269%+12 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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