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Oral surgery waiting times at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,496 people were on the Oral surgery at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (53%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
2,496
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.9%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
111
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

111 people (4.4%, roughly 1 in 23) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 3.9% of everyone waiting at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 13.2 percentage points (40% to 53%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4 points over 3 months (48.9% in March 2026); up 12.8 points over 6 months (40.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +13.2 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 202539.7%
August 202539.1%
September 202536.7%
October 202537.4%
November 202538.4%
December 202540.1%
January 202639.7%
February 202640.9%
March 202648.9%
April 202649.2%
May 202653.8%
June 202652.9%

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 University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,26039.7%328
August 20253,35439.1%398
September 20253,36536.7%436
October 20253,37037.4%461
November 20253,15938.4%332
December 20253,12140.1%276
January 20263,00739.7%258
February 20262,83140.9%234
March 20262,59848.9%189
April 20262,57749.2%180
May 20262,54453.8%108
June 20262,49652.9%111

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
Isle of Wight NHS Trust16.4 mi54349%-3.9 pp
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust16.9 mi4,30443%-9.6 pp
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust17.2 mi1,83167%+13.7 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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