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Plastic surgery waiting times at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 813 people were on the Plastic surgery at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
813
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.1%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
22
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

22 people (2.7%, roughly 1 in 37) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.2 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 2.4% of everyone waiting at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 15.1 percentage points (39% to 54%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 7.2 points over 3 months (46.9% in March 2026); up 11 points over 6 months (43.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +15.1 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 202539%
August 202538.2%
September 202542.7%
October 202542.6%
November 202545.2%
December 202543.1%
January 202641.3%
February 202644.8%
March 202646.9%
April 202647.6%
May 202646.9%
June 202654.1%

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 West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,02839.0%145
August 202595738.2%141
September 202597742.7%137
October 202590942.6%96
November 202595845.2%69
December 202598143.1%86
January 202694141.3%63
February 202689744.8%35
March 202684946.9%21
April 202682547.6%29
May 202681846.9%23
June 202681354.1%22

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
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi29267%+13.4 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi2,03263%+8.4 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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