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Hernia surgery (inguinal) NHS waiting times by trust

Hernia surgery (inguinal) is done by general surgery, where the typical NHS wait is about 17 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 hernia surgery (inguinal) on its own: the NHS doesn’t publish waits for single procedures.

Updated August 2026 · (Referral to Treatment: the NHS wait-time framework)

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Trust	Location	Typical wait
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	Tameside	3 weeks
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	Harlow	4 weeks
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust	Reading	5 weeks
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	Kirklees	6 weeks
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust	Kensington and Chelsea	6 weeks
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Milton Keynes	6 weeks
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	Darlington	6 weeks
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	North Tyneside	6 weeks
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Newcastle upon Tyne	6 weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	Wiltshire	6 weeks
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust	Portsmouth	7 weeks
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Preston	7 weeks
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust	Somerset	7 weeks
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Chesterfield	7 weeks
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust	Southend-on-Sea	8 weeks
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Leeds	8 weeks
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust	Warwick	9 weeks
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	10 weeks
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	Coventry	11 weeks
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust	Bolton	11 weeks
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	Stockport	11 weeks
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	Reigate and Banstead	11 weeks
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	Rotherham	12 weeks
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	North Yorkshire	12 weeks
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust	Wakefield	12 weeks
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust	Canterbury	12 weeks
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	Shropshire	12 weeks
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	Gateshead	12 weeks
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	Sunderland	12 weeks
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Swindon	13 weeks
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	Lambeth	13 weeks
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust	Lewisham	13 weeks
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust	Derby	13 weeks
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	Hastings	14 weeks
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	14 weeks
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Kingston upon Hull, City of	14 weeks
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Barnsley	15 weeks
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	Cornwall	15 weeks
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	South Norfolk	15 weeks
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Luton	15 weeks
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Watford	16 weeks
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust	Warrington	16 weeks
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	Birmingham	16 weeks
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust	Stoke-on-Trent	16 weeks
Wye Valley NHS Trust	Herefordshire, County of	17 weeks
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	Sandwell	17 weeks
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust	Guildford	17 weeks
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust	Dudley	18 weeks
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Lincoln	18 weeks
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Oxford	19 weeks
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust	Salford	19 weeks
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Knowsley	19 weeks
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust	Stevenage	20 weeks
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	Worcester	20 weeks
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust	Southampton	20 weeks
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	Manchester	21 weeks
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust	North East Lincolnshire	22 weeks
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Cheshire West and Chester	22 weeks
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust	Hartlepool	23 weeks
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	Exeter	23 weeks
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust	Peterborough	24 weeks
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust	Bath and North East Somerset	25 weeks
Medway NHS Foundation Trust	Medway	25 weeks
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Doncaster	26 weeks
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust	Bristol, City of	26 weeks
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Middlesbrough	26 weeks
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	Hackney	26 weeks
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Hillingdon	27 weeks
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust	Bradford	27 weeks
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	Nuneaton and Bedworth	28 weeks
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	Sutton	29 weeks
East Cheshire NHS Trust	Cheshire East	29 weeks
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Ashfield	29 weeks
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	North Northamptonshire	29 weeks
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust	Wolverhampton	30 weeks
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust	Surrey Heath	31 weeks
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Great Yarmouth	31 weeks
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	Blackburn with Darwen	31 weeks
Barts Health NHS Trust	Tower Hamlets	31 weeks
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	Leicester	32 weeks
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	Maidstone	33 weeks
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	Cumberland	35 weeks
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust	Brent	35 weeks
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	Westminster	36 weeks
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust	Walsall	37 weeks
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust	Croydon	38 weeks
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cambridge	39 weeks
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Kensington and Chelsea	39 weeks
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust	Colchester	39 weeks
Isle of Wight NHS Trust	Isle of Wight	40 weeks
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	Dartford	41 weeks
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust	Westmorland and Furness	41 weeks
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cheshire East	42 weeks
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust	Buckinghamshire	42 weeks
Whittington Health NHS Trust	Islington	43 weeks
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	Nottingham	44 weeks
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust	Havering	44 weeks
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	Camden	44 weeks
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Wigan	44 weeks
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Dorset	45 weeks
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Liverpool	50 weeks
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust	West Suffolk	50 weeks
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Wandsworth	51 weeks
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Lambeth	51 weeks
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Basingstoke and Deane	52 weeks
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust	Worthing	56 weeks

106 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for August 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.

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About inguinal hernia

An inguinal hernia is a bulge in the groin, where fatty tissue or part of the bowel pushes through a weak spot in the lower tummy wall. It is much more common in men.