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General surgery waiting times at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,822 people were on the General surgery at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
1,822
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.4%
England: 63.2%
Over 52 weeks
43
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

43 people (2.4%, roughly 1 in 42) 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 6.1% of everyone waiting at The Rotherham 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 broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for General surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 57.4% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 56.2% 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
57.4%
3 months earlier · May 2026
59.1% then · change to latest -1.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
55.7% then · change to latest +1.7 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
56.2% then · change to latest +1.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
49.6% then · change to latest +7.8 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202657.4%1,822
July 202658.5%1,879
June 202658.2%1,878
May 202659.1%1,830
April 202657.3%1,781
March 202660.6%1,757
February 202655.7%1,762
January 202653.3%1,759
December 202555.9%1,777
November 202554.5%1,769
October 202552.5%1,742
September 202555%1,735
August 202556.2%1,736
July 202557.6%1,682
June 202557.4%1,720
May 202558.8%1,725
April 202557.5%1,704
March 202555.2%1,644
February 202552.6%1,681
January 202552.6%1,737
December 202453.1%1,677
November 202454.1%1,711
October 202457.5%1,798
September 202459.7%1,777
August 202457.6%1,737
July 202459.2%1,764
June 202455.1%1,710
May 202453.4%1,596
April 202449.6%1,620
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
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust11.9 mi2,02768%+10.6 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust12.5 mi1,30042%-15.1 pp
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi4,16369%+12.1 pp
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust19.8 mi4,24755%-2.2 pp
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust20.1 mi1,72767%+9.4 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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