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Oral surgery waiting times at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,897 people were on the Oral surgery at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (37%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
3,897
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
37.2%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
159
Median wait
25 wks
Published median for this list

159 people (4.1%, roughly 1 in 24) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 17.8 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 6.7% of everyone waiting at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (37% to 37%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (38.5% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (37.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.4 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 202536.8%
August 202537.1%
September 202539.2%
October 202537.9%
November 202536.6%
December 202537.8%
January 202636.1%
February 202635.1%
March 202638.5%
April 202638%
May 202637.3%
June 202637.2%

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 Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,55236.8%187
August 20253,54637.1%155
September 20253,67539.2%183
October 20253,84737.9%198
November 20253,80536.6%188
December 20253,90437.8%153
January 20263,94136.1%153
February 20263,87835.1%190
March 20264,02238.5%257
April 20264,02338.0%256
May 20263,93637.3%222
June 20263,89737.2%159

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
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust20.6 mi2,47147%+9.8 pp
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi3,52365%+27.4 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust21.6 mi2,27151%+14.3 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust22.9 mi1,17953%+16.2 pp
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust24 mi6,23877%+39.5 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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