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General surgery waiting times at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,472 people were on the General surgery at The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (47%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
3,472
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
46.7%
England: 63.2%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
20 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 16.5 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 7.1% of everyone waiting at The Dudley Group 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: 46.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 58.5% 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
46.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
51.1% then · change to latest -4.4 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
48% then · change to latest -1.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
58.5% then · change to latest -11.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
45.5% then · change to latest +1.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202646.7%3,472
July 202646.5%3,374
June 202650.8%3,313
May 202651.1%3,243
April 202653.3%3,225
March 202652%3,140
February 202648%3,380
January 202652.6%3,287
December 202554%3,142
November 202554.7%3,007
October 202556.7%3,001
September 202557.3%2,893
August 202558.5%2,727
July 202559.2%2,686
June 202557.4%2,525
May 202555.3%2,496
April 202554.3%2,648
March 202552.9%2,560
February 202552.4%2,637
January 202548.8%2,656
December 202447.8%2,598
November 202450%2,738
October 202449.5%2,765
September 202449.6%2,722
August 202446.5%2,734
July 202445.7%2,772
June 202445.6%2,713
May 202445%2,811
April 202445.5%2,980
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
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust6.8 mi1,19867%+20.2 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust7.1 mi4,70864%+17.2 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust7.5 mi1,67057%+10.4 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust8.1 mi4,54659%+12.4 pp
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust21.6 mi5,21358%+11.3 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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