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

At the end of June 2026, 2,496 people were on the Oral surgery at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,496
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.1%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
15
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

15 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) 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 5.5% of everyone waiting at Wirral University Teaching Hospital 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 10.8 percentage points (41% to 52%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.4 points over 3 months (47.7% in March 2026); up 8.7 points over 6 months (43.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +10.8 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 202541.3%
August 202534%
September 202541.9%
October 202541.9%
November 202542.5%
December 202543.4%
January 202645%
February 202644.8%
March 202647.7%
April 202648.5%
May 202649.9%
June 202652.1%

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 Oral surgery figures at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,73941.3%98
August 20252,63534.0%124
September 20253,14141.9%138
October 20253,08541.9%193
November 20253,16242.5%233
December 20253,16743.4%183
January 20263,06645.0%119
February 20263,05644.8%123
March 20262,94247.7%66
April 20262,78148.5%16
May 20262,68649.9%26
June 20262,49652.1%15

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 mi4,24255%+2.9 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust13.3 mi2,22156%+4 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi2,23745%-6.8 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust23.2 mi1,38162%+9.8 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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