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General surgery waiting times at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 999 people were on the General surgery at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (53%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
999
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.7%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
32
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

32 people (3.2%, roughly 1 in 31) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10.4 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 1.4% of everyone waiting at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (54% to 53%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 14.1 points over 3 months (38.6% in March 2026); up 22.5 points over 6 months (30.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -1.1 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 202553.8%
August 202554.9%
September 202564.8%
October 202541.8%
November 202539.5%
December 202530.2%
January 202625.1%
February 202631.1%
March 202638.6%
April 202654.8%
May 202646.1%
June 202652.7%

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 The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,73053.8%149
August 20256,71354.9%159
September 20252,50264.8%106
October 20255,24741.8%239
November 20254,44139.5%248
December 20253,75330.2%240
January 20263,34325.1%203
February 20262,67331.1%149
March 20261,98738.6%118
April 20261,61654.8%56
May 20261,14046.1%48
June 202699952.7%32

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
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust4.2 mi1,70756%+3.6 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust6.8 mi3,31351%-1.9 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust9.7 mi4,57564%+11.2 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust12.1 mi4,43464%+11.1 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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