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Plastic surgery waiting times at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 807 people were on the Plastic surgery at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
807
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
51.9%
England: 59.4%
Over 52 weeks
9
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

9 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.5 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 2.5% of everyone waiting at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Plastic surgery at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 51.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 38.2% 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
51.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
46.9% then · change to latest +5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
44.8% then · change to latest +7.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
38.2% then · change to latest +13.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
37.3% then · change to latest +14.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202651.9%807
July 202650.9%807
June 202654.1%813
May 202646.9%818
April 202647.6%825
March 202646.9%849
February 202644.8%897
January 202641.3%941
December 202543.1%981
November 202545.2%958
October 202542.6%909
September 202542.7%977
August 202538.2%957
July 202539%1,028
June 202537.3%1,116
May 202534.4%1,109
April 202537.2%1,144
March 202538.8%1,136
February 202540.1%1,147
January 202540.9%1,192
December 202440.2%1,152
November 202440.8%1,092
October 202441.5%1,058
September 202440.9%1,046
August 202437.3%1,000
July 202437.2%1,018
June 202436.5%1,004
May 202436.9%976
April 202437.3%973
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 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 mi32369%+17.1 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi2,14064%+12.3 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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