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Plastic surgery waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,210 people were on the Plastic surgery at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (49%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
1,210
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
48.7%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
80
Median wait
19 wks
Published median for this list

80 people (6.6%, roughly 1 in 15) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10.6 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% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 3.9 percentage points (53% to 49%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4.1 points over 3 months (52.8% in March 2026); up 3.2 points over 6 months (45.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -3.9 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 202552.6%
August 202548.9%
September 202550.8%
October 202550.6%
November 202553.6%
December 202545.5%
January 202639.7%
February 202652%
March 202652.8%
April 202651.7%
May 202653.7%
June 202648.7%

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 Plastic surgery figures at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,14352.6%15
August 202599548.9%20
September 202590050.8%17
October 202588750.6%20
November 202594653.6%17
December 202583945.5%21
January 202679439.7%15
February 20261,06352.0%10
March 20261,01752.8%23
April 20261,14251.7%61
May 20261,24753.7%64
June 20261,21048.7%80

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
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust16.4 mi10993%+44 pp
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust19.1 mi52961%+12.8 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi93063%+14.5 pp
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.7 mi8763%+14.5 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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