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Oral surgery waiting times at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,842 people were on the Oral surgery at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,842
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.2%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
71
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

71 people (2.5%, roughly 1 in 40) 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 6.4% of everyone waiting at West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 52.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 55.3% 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
52.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
56.5% then · change to latest -4.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
52.7% then · change to latest -0.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
55.3% then · change to latest -3.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
68.3% then · change to latest -16.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202652.2%2,842
July 202654.8%2,837
June 202656.6%2,803
May 202656.5%2,747
April 202655.3%2,701
March 202656.4%2,670
February 202652.7%2,533
January 202655.4%2,630
December 202555.1%2,695
November 202554.7%2,614
October 202552.2%2,508
September 202553.4%2,431
August 202555.3%2,493
July 202560.8%2,717
June 202560.5%2,749
May 202558.4%2,683
April 202555%2,614
March 202554.4%2,715
February 202555.8%2,762
January 202557.2%2,737
December 202459.7%2,762
November 202460%2,683
October 202458.4%2,529
September 202457.2%2,484
August 202461%2,583
July 202462.5%2,583
June 202465.1%2,503
May 202466.9%2,478
April 202468.3%2,312
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 oral 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 Oral surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6.2 mi8,20246%-5.9 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.8 mi2,18551%-0.8 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust9.4 mi1,17073%+21.2 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust12.2 mi5,05557%+4.8 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust12.7 mi13170%+18.1 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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