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General surgery waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 6,387 people were on the General surgery at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (67%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
6,387
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
66.7%
England: 63.2%
Over 52 weeks
96
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

96 people (1.5%, roughly 1 in 67) 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 5.6% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

General surgery, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for General surgery at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 66.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 40.1% 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
66.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
67.4% then · change to latest -0.7 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
59.3% then · change to latest +7.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
40.1% then · change to latest +26.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
56.2% then · change to latest +10.5 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202666.7%6,387
July 202667.8%6,319
June 202667.9%6,395
May 202667.4%6,800
April 202664.8%6,791
March 202662.5%6,732
February 202659.3%6,526
January 202650.1%4,860
December 202545.3%4,947
November 202544.8%5,045
October 202541.1%5,261
September 202537.4%4,968
August 202540.1%5,234
July 202542.9%5,352
June 202554.6%6,371
May 202550.3%5,626
April 202550.5%5,664
March 202549%5,418
February 202548.1%5,560
January 202546.1%5,408
December 202445.7%5,492
November 202447.1%5,694
October 202443.6%5,310
September 202442.9%5,255
August 202445%5,358
July 202451.2%5,635
June 202452.9%5,628
May 202454.9%5,348
April 202456.2%5,270
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
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust16.4 mi1,28358%-8.3 pp
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust19.1 mi7,81461%-5.6 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi91654%-13 pp
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.7 mi1,98669%+2.4 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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