General Surgery waiting times at Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre

5week median wait · June 2026

Half of the 264 people on the general surgery list here have been waiting longer than 5 weeks, half less. That is 1 week longer than a year ago. It is about 9 weeks shorter than the England average for this specialty. 1 of them has been waiting more than a year.

93%

seen within 18 weeks
(the standard is 92%)

weeks for the slowest 8% of the queue

10 / 241

shortest wait in England for this specialty

Which way it’s moving

1 week longer than a year ago.

That hides a turn: it is 1 week longer than twelve months ago, but 1 week shorter than six months ago.

Median wait each month, 18 months to June 2026.

How the queue is spread

How the queue is spread, in four-week bands. The rule marks the 18-week standard. 5% of this queue is already past it.

Comparable providers nearby

Nothing within 75 miles is treating general surgery more than two weeks sooner than here, so on these figures you are already near the front of the queue. The closest comparable providers are below so you can see that for yourself.

Provider	Miles	Median	Against here
Medway NHS Foundation Trust Gillingham	2 miles	11 wks	7 wks longer
Spire Alexandra Hospital Chatham	5 miles	9 wks	4 wks longer
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Maidstone	11 miles	10 wks	6 wks longer
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Westcliff-on-Sea	16 miles	19 wks	15 wks longer
Spire Wellesley Hospital Southend-on-Sea	17 miles	14 wks	9 wks longer

Other waits here

The same right to choose applies to every one of these. Practice Plus Group Surgical Centre - Gillingham reports 3 other specialties in the June 2026 figures.

Specialty	Waiting	Median
Ophthalmology	504	4 wks
Gastroenterology	216	2 wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic	88	21 wks

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Straight answers

About this figure

It’s about six weeks behind. NHS England publishes monthly, with a lag. This page shows June 2026.
It’s a trust-level average, not your wait. Your own wait depends on urgency, clinical need and which site you are treated at. Large trusts run several hospitals.
It counts people still waiting (incomplete pathways at month end), not people already treated.

This page presents official statistics and points to a right you already have. It isn’t medical advice, and it can’t tell you whether switching is right for you. Your clinician can.