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General surgery waiting times at Wye Valley NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 817 people were on the General surgery at Wye Valley NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (64%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Wye Valley NHS Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
817
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.5%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
6
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

6 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 3% of everyone waiting at Wye Valley NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 2.5 percentage points (66% to 64%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (62.7% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (65.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -2.5 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 202566%
August 202565.1%
September 202566.4%
October 202564.3%
November 202564.6%
December 202565.3%
January 202665.6%
February 202663.5%
March 202662.7%
April 202661.9%
May 202662.2%
June 202663.5%

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 Wye Valley NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202568666.0%1
August 202575965.1%2
September 202583066.4%3
October 202579864.3%5
November 202578264.6%5
December 202576665.3%2
January 202681865.6%4
February 202679163.5%4
March 202679362.7%3
April 202685361.9%5
May 202684962.2%7
June 202681763.5%6

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
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust24.1 mi4,98961%-2.9 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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