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General surgery waiting times at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,585 people were on the General surgery at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (58%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
4,585
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.8%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
131
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

131 people (2.9%, roughly 1 in 34) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.2 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 4.8% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation 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 (58% to 58%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (58.8% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (59.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -0.4 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 202558.2%
August 202559.6%
September 202560.9%
October 202561.6%
November 202560.1%
December 202559%
January 202658.1%
February 202657.9%
March 202658.8%
April 202657.1%
May 202656.8%
June 202657.8%

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 University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,07358.2%98
August 20254,71359.6%110
September 20254,53060.9%115
October 20254,54061.6%83
November 20254,58760.1%99
December 20254,54659.0%86
January 20264,54358.1%93
February 20264,42757.9%108
March 20264,41358.8%82
April 20264,40857.1%96
May 20264,42456.8%111
June 20264,58557.8%131

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
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust13.8 mi86059%+1.4 pp
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust19.4 mi4,33256%-1.4 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23 mi1,31148%-10.1 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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