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General surgery waiting times at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,707 people were on the General surgery at Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
1,707
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.2%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 6.8 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 6.1% of everyone waiting at Walsall Healthcare 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 11 percentage points (67% to 56%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.9 points over 3 months (52.3% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (58.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -11 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 202567.2%
August 202566.6%
September 202565.3%
October 202564.6%
November 202561.1%
December 202558.1%
January 202653.4%
February 202651.7%
March 202652.3%
April 202652.8%
May 202654%
June 202656.2%

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 Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,67367.2%0
August 20251,74366.6%0
September 20251,82565.3%0
October 20251,94764.6%1
November 20251,97461.1%0
December 20252,00558.1%1
January 20261,92453.4%2
February 20261,79951.7%1
March 20261,71852.3%0
April 20261,76752.8%0
May 20261,76854.0%0
June 20261,70756.2%0

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
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust4.2 mi99953%-3.6 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust6.6 mi4,57564%+7.6 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust7.5 mi3,31351%-5.5 pp
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust9.3 mi4,43464%+7.5 pp
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust22.4 mi1,33156%-0.2 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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