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General surgery waiting times at Whittington Health NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,110 people were on the General surgery at Whittington Health NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Whittington Health NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
4,110
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.6%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
60
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

60 people (1.5%, roughly 1 in 67) 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 18% of everyone waiting at Whittington Health NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.4 percentage points (56% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (63.5% in March 2026); up 8.4 points over 6 months (54.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.4 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 202556.2%
August 202554.5%
September 202555.5%
October 202555.8%
November 202555.9%
December 202554.2%
January 202650.5%
February 202653.3%
March 202663.5%
April 202664.4%
May 202665.9%
June 202662.6%

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 Whittington Health NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,25356.2%268
August 20255,56754.5%363
September 20255,70755.5%281
October 20255,66555.8%182
November 20255,74455.9%108
December 20255,84654.2%153
January 20265,41050.5%125
February 20264,49853.3%100
March 20263,85563.5%45
April 20263,95664.4%68
May 20264,16265.9%69
June 20264,11062.6%60

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
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust1.5 mi4,10542%-21 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.8 mi5884%+21.9 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust3.7 mi2,20160%-2.6 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust4.1 mi2,71762%-0.8 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust4.8 mi1,58556%-6.9 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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