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Oral surgery waiting times at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,938 people were on the Oral surgery at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
3,938
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.8%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
195
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

195 people (5.0%, roughly 1 in 20) 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 5.5% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS 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 (54% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.4 points over 3 months (52.4% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (54.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +1.3 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 202553.5%
August 202553.1%
September 202552.3%
October 202552.7%
November 202553.1%
December 202554.2%
January 202652.4%
February 202649.9%
March 202652.4%
April 202651.1%
May 202653.6%
June 202654.8%

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 Oral surgery figures at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,35053.5%109
August 20253,36553.1%122
September 20253,42652.3%133
October 20253,56252.7%125
November 20253,46853.1%128
December 20253,53054.2%175
January 20263,61552.4%192
February 20263,57349.9%221
March 20263,66452.4%205
April 20263,83351.1%225
May 20263,86553.6%191
June 20263,93854.8%195

Other NHS trusts offering oral surgery within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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