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

At the end of June 2026, 404 people were on the Plastic surgery at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (74%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
404
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
73.5%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
5
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

5 people (1.2%, roughly 1 in 83) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 14.2 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 0.4% 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 (72% to 74%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (73.1% in March 2026); up 5.1 points over 6 months (68.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +1.5 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 202572%
August 202573.1%
September 202575.1%
October 202574.5%
November 202571.6%
December 202568.4%
January 202671.7%
February 202670.5%
March 202673.1%
April 202675.5%
May 202675.1%
June 202673.5%

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 Plastic surgery figures at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202538972.0%5
August 202536473.1%5
September 202540175.1%4
October 202542874.5%5
November 202542371.6%4
December 202541868.4%5
January 202644271.7%4
February 202638770.5%7
March 202639473.1%5
April 202641675.5%3
May 202640675.1%3
June 202640473.5%5

Other NHS trusts offering plastic 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 Plastic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust13.8 mi93063%-10.3 pp
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust19.4 mi11555%-18.7 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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