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Oral surgery waiting times at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,422 people were on the Oral surgery at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (72%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
2,422
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
71.9%
England: 55%
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 June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 16.9 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 2.8% of everyone waiting at The Newcastle Upon Tyne 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 worsened by 8.2 percentage points (80% to 72%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (73.2% in March 2026); down 3.7 points over 6 months (75.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -8.2 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 202580.1%
August 202581.5%
September 202583.5%
October 202582.2%
November 202578.3%
December 202575.6%
January 202676.3%
February 202671.4%
March 202673.2%
April 202668.9%
May 202670.2%
June 202671.9%

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 Oral surgery figures at The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,30580.1%0
August 20251,43781.5%0
September 20251,59683.5%1
October 20251,65882.2%0
November 20251,59278.3%0
December 20251,73875.6%0
January 20261,82876.3%0
February 20261,67171.4%0
March 20262,04073.2%0
April 20262,23768.9%0
May 20262,37270.2%1
June 20262,42271.9%0

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 Trust5.2 mi1,62463%-9.2 pp
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi5,08368%-3.7 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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