NHS waiting times · General Surgery
Haemorrhoid treatment NHS waiting times by trust
Haemorrhoid treatment is done by general surgery, where the typical NHS wait is about 18 weeks: half of patients wait less, half longer. It varies a lot by hospital.
This is the wait for the whole general surgery specialty, not haemorrhoid treatment on its own: the NHS doesn’t publish waits for single procedures.
Updated July 2026 · (Referral to Treatment: the NHS wait-time framework)
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See your free wait-or-pay dashboard→| Trust | Location | Typical wait |
|---|---|---|
| Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | Tameside | 3 weeks |
| The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust | Harlow | 4 weeks |
| Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Milton Keynes | 4 weeks |
| Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust | Reading | 5 weeks |
| Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Chesterfield | 5 weeks |
| Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust | Kirklees | 5 weeks |
| University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole | 6 weeks |
| The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust | Kensington and Chelsea | 7 weeks |
| County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust | Darlington | 7 weeks |
| Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust | Wiltshire | 7 weeks |
| Somerset NHS Foundation Trust | Somerset | 8 weeks |
| Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | North Tyneside | 8 weeks |
| Bolton NHS Foundation Trust | Bolton | 8 weeks |
| Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | Reigate and Banstead | 9 weeks |
| Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust | Portsmouth | 9 weeks |
| Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust | North Yorkshire | 10 weeks |
| East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust | Canterbury | 10 weeks |
| Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Leeds | 10 weeks |
| Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Southend-on-Sea | 11 weeks |
| Airedale NHS Foundation Trust | Bradford | 11 weeks |
| Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust | West Northamptonshire | 12 weeks |
| Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | South Norfolk | 12 weeks |
| Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust | Gateshead | 12 weeks |
| University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust | Birmingham | 12 weeks |
| South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust | Sunderland | 12 weeks |
| The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust | Rotherham | 13 weeks |
| Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Preston | 13 weeks |
| East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust | Hastings | 13 weeks |
| Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust | Wakefield | 14 weeks |
| Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Kingston upon Hull, City of | 14 weeks |
| Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Bradford | 14 weeks |
| Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Barnsley | 14 weeks |
| South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust | Warwick | 14 weeks |
| University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust | Coventry | 14 weeks |
| The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Newcastle upon Tyne | 15 weeks |
| Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Luton | 15 weeks |
| North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust | Warrington | 15 weeks |
| West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Watford | 17 weeks |
| Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust | Sandwell | 17 weeks |
| University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust | Stoke-on-Trent | 17 weeks |
| Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Swindon | 17 weeks |
| Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust | Guildford | 18 weeks |
| Stockport NHS Foundation Trust | Stockport | 18 weeks |
| United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Lincoln | 18 weeks |
| University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust | Southampton | 19 weeks |
| The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust | Shropshire | 19 weeks |
| Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust | Cornwall | 19 weeks |
| Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Knowsley | 20 weeks |
| Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Ashfield | 20 weeks |
| Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Oxford | 20 weeks |
| North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust | Hartlepool | 20 weeks |
| Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust | Manchester | 20 weeks |
| North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust | Peterborough | 21 weeks |
| Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Cheshire West and Chester | 21 weeks |
| South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Middlesbrough | 22 weeks |
| University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | Derby | 22 weeks |
| Wye Valley NHS Trust | Herefordshire, County of | 22 weeks |
| Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | North Northamptonshire | 23 weeks |
| Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust | Havering | 23 weeks |
| East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust | Blackburn with Darwen | 23 weeks |
| Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust | North East Lincolnshire | 23 weeks |
| Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Cambridge | 23 weeks |
| Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust | Maidstone | 24 weeks |
| Medway NHS Foundation Trust | Medway | 25 weeks |
| Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Exeter | 25 weeks |
| Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust | Salford | 25 weeks |
| Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust | Sutton | 26 weeks |
| George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust | Nuneaton and Bedworth | 26 weeks |
| The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | 26 weeks |
| Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust | Kingston upon Thames | 26 weeks |
| Bristol NHS Foundation Trust | Bristol, City of | 26 weeks |
| Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust | Worcester | 26 weeks |
| Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust | Lewisham | 27 weeks |
| East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust | Stevenage | 28 weeks |
| Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Surrey Heath | 29 weeks |
| Barts Health NHS Trust | Tower Hamlets | 29 weeks |
| The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust | Dudley | 30 weeks |
| Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Basingstoke and Deane | 31 weeks |
| Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Doncaster | 31 weeks |
| The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Hillingdon | 32 weeks |
| University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust | Leicester | 32 weeks |
| East Cheshire NHS Trust | Cheshire East | 33 weeks |
| Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust | Walsall | 33 weeks |
| University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust | Westmorland and Furness | 33 weeks |
| Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Hackney | 33 weeks |
| The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | Wolverhampton | 33 weeks |
| James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Great Yarmouth | 34 weeks |
| London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust | Brent | 36 weeks |
| Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Dorset | 38 weeks |
| Croydon Health Services NHS Trust | Croydon | 40 weeks |
| Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Kensington and Chelsea | 40 weeks |
| Isle of Wight NHS Trust | Isle of Wight | 40 weeks |
| Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust | Dartford | 41 weeks |
| Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust | Westminster | 41 weeks |
| Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust | Nottingham | 43 weeks |
| Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Liverpool | 43 weeks |
| Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust | Bath and North East Somerset | 43 weeks |
| Whittington Health NHS Trust | Islington | 44 weeks |
| St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Wandsworth | 44 weeks |
| East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Colchester | 45 weeks |
| University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust | Worthing | 45 weeks |
| Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust | Buckinghamshire | 46 weeks |
| Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust | Camden | 48 weeks |
| West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust | West Suffolk | 49 weeks |
| King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Lambeth | 50 weeks |
| Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Wigan | 50 weeks |
| North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust | Cumberland | 53 weeks |
107 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for July 2026. We show only acute trusts with a confident sample size, so a small-volume or community service can't distort the ranking. 7 trusts were set aside for too few patients to be reliable.
Larger trusts run several hospitals, sometimes miles apart. The NHS publishes one wait for the whole trust, not a separate figure per hospital, so the location shown is the trust's main registered site: your care could be at another of its hospitals.
About haemorrhoids
Haemorrhoids, also called piles, are swollen blood vessels in and around the back passage (the anus and lower rectum). They are very common and often settle by themselves.
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