Plastic Surgery waiting times by hospital in England (June 2026)

week England average

weeks between the fastest and slowest provider

104k

people waiting across 80 providers

That spread is the whole point. Someone waiting at the slowest provider could, on these figures, be seen about 34 weeks sooner elsewhere, if they know to ask. The median also hides the tail: 3,047 of the 103,868 people on this list nationally have been waiting more than a year.

#	Provider	Median	Within 18wk	Waiting
1	The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Manchester	3 wks	99%	171
2	University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust Kendal	4 wks	97%	64
3	George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Nuneaton	4 wks	93%	109
4	Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Keighley	4 wks	88%	59
5	Tees Valley Hospital Middlesbrough	5 wks	94%	477
6	Somerset Surgical Services Hq Weston-Super-Mare	5 wks	98%	118
7	Cotswolds Surgical Partners Swindon	5 wks	95%	196
8	Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Swindon	6 wks	77%	108
9	The Yorkshire Clinic Bingley	7 wks	80%	85
10	Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Taunton	7 wks	94%	157
11	Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust Kingston upon Thames	7 wks	91%	246
12	Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Chester	7 wks	74%	877
13	Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust Guildford	7 wks	88%	147
14	University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Stoke-on-Trent	8 wks	74%	1,243
15	East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Stevenage	8 wks	75%	2,939
16	University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Plymouth	8 wks	70%	1,053
17	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust North Shields	8 wks	80%	2,951
18	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust King's Lynn	8 wks	62%	65
19	Tyneside Surgical Services Ltd Gateshead	9 wks	91%	239
20	University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Derby	9 wks	74%	404
21	Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Salisbury	10 wks	76%	2,033
22	North Bristol NHS Trust Bristol	10 wks	70%	2,336
23	Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Reading	10 wks	81%	303
24	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Exeter	10 wks	70%	1,217
25	Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust Wakefield	10 wks	73%	1,560
26	The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust Dudley	10 wks	65%	1,929
27	Cora Health Diagnostics (Formerly Healthshare Diagnostics) West Malling	10 wks	73%	146
28	The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Wolverhampton	10 wks	65%	124
29	Epsomedical Group Cobham	10 wks	71%	332
30	Spire Leeds Hospital Leeds	10 wks	64%	135
31	East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Colchester	11 wks	68%	292
32	St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust London	11 wks	67%	1,500
33	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Middlesbrough	11 wks	66%	2,096
34	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Cambridge	11 wks	63%	2,032
35	York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust York	11 wks	67%	247
36	Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Amersham	11 wks	67%	1,482
37	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Blackpool	11 wks	73%	235
38	Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Portsmouth	12 wks	62%	467
39	County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Darlington	12 wks	63%	1,533
40	Wye Valley NHS Trust Hereford	12 wks	65%	278
41	North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Peterborough	12 wks	63%	1,449
42	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham	12 wks	64%	693
43	The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne	12 wks	63%	1,493
44	Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust London	13 wks	65%	3,046
45	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Nottingham	13 wks	63%	930
46	Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Kettering	13 wks	63%	87
47	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Oxford	13 wks	62%	1,822
48	University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Coventry	14 wks	62%	527
49	Nuffield Health Parkside Hospital London	14 wks	60%	75
50	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Sutton-in-Ashfield	14 wks	55%	115
51	Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Bradford	14 wks	63%	905
52	James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Great Yarmouth	14 wks	63%	148
53	Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust East Grinstead	14 wks	59%	5,837
54	Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust Salford	14 wks	60%	1,272
55	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Leeds	14 wks	59%	2,388
56	Croydon Health Services NHS Trust Thornton Heath	15 wks	59%	75
57	Cobalt Hospital Newcastle upon Tyne	15 wks	60%	894
58	Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Luton	15 wks	58%	1,603
59	Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust Huddersfield	15 wks	56%	544
60	Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Prescot	16 wks	56%	8,118
61	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust London	16 wks	57%	250
62	Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Smethwick	16 wks	59%	585
63	Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust London	16 wks	56%	1,974
64	West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Bury St. Edmunds	16 wks	54%	813
65	Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Northampton	16 wks	56%	186
66	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Preston	16 wks	55%	4,227
67	Barts Health NHS Trust London	17 wks	53%	1,289
68	Whittington Health NHS Trust London	17 wks	52%	131
69	Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust London	18 wks	51%	3,961
70	Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Manchester	18 wks	50%	5,238
71	University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Leicester	19 wks	49%	1,210
72	Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust London	19 wks	49%	3,175
73	Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Camberley	19 wks	49%	2,702
74	Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Norwich	20 wks	46%	1,534
75	Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Westcliff-on-Sea	21 wks	45%	6,601
76	South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Warwick	22 wks	41%	456
77	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Hull	22 wks	43%	4,481
78	Bolton NHS Foundation Trust Bolton	23 wks	43%	720
79	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool	28 wks	21%	122
80	Nuffield Health, Brighton Hospital Brighton	37 wks	24%	207

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Providers with fewer than 50 people waiting are not shown, because a median over a handful of patients says more about chance than about the queue. Some providers listed run community or single-procedure services rather than full surgical ones; check what a provider actually treats before asking to be referred.