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Oral surgery waiting times at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,256 people were on the Oral surgery at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
2,256
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.1%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
16
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

16 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) 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 5.2% of everyone waiting at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 56.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 34% 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
56.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
49.9% then · change to latest +6.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
44.8% then · change to latest +11.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
34% then · change to latest +22.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
62.3% then · change to latest -6.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202656.1%2,256
July 202653.5%2,382
June 202652.1%2,496
May 202649.9%2,686
April 202648.5%2,781
March 202647.7%2,942
February 202644.8%3,056
January 202645%3,066
December 202543.4%3,167
November 202542.5%3,162
October 202541.9%3,085
September 202541.9%3,141
August 202534%2,635
July 202541.3%2,739
June 202549.6%2,931
May 202551.2%2,883
April 202550.5%2,778
March 202552%2,864
February 202553.5%2,590
January 202556.7%2,398
December 202441.8%1,573
November 202462.7%2,356
October 202462.3%2,188
September 202462.9%2,072
August 202461.9%1,897
July 202462.8%1,905
June 202464.2%1,832
May 202463%1,872
April 202462.3%1,904
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
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6.1 mi4,07051%-5.4 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust13.3 mi2,51155%-1.3 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi2,07347%-8.8 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust23.2 mi1,49263%+7.4 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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