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General surgery waiting times at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,257 people were on the General surgery at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
3,257
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.8%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
19
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

19 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.2 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 7.2% of everyone waiting at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals 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 (58% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.9 points over 3 months (60.7% in March 2026); up 3.4 points over 6 months (53.4% 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 202558.1%
August 202557.3%
September 202555.7%
October 202553.9%
November 202552.6%
December 202553.4%
January 202654%
February 202656%
March 202660.7%
April 202658.2%
May 202657.7%
June 202656.8%

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 General surgery figures at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,31058.1%84
August 20253,31957.3%99
September 20253,35955.7%125
October 20253,27253.9%134
November 20253,27452.6%129
December 20253,29353.4%146
January 20263,30254.0%139
February 20263,29856.0%105
March 20263,46460.7%17
April 20263,41858.2%25
May 20263,32257.7%32
June 20263,25756.8%19

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
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6.2 mi3,37262%+5.5 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.8 mi1,38462%+5.2 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust9.4 mi2,42060%+2.7 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust12.2 mi4,10542%-15.1 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust12.7 mi4,11063%+5.8 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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