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Inguinal hernia repair waiting times by NHS trust

Updated June 2026 · (Referral to Treatment — the NHS wait-time framework)

This is the wait for the whole General Surgery specialty, not for inguinal hernia repair on its own — the NHS does not publish a wait for a single procedure. Each figure is the median wait from GP referral to the start of treatment — half of patients are seen sooner, half wait longer, read from that trust's own most recent data.

TrustLocationTypical wait
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustTameside4 weeks
Somerset NHS Foundation TrustSomerset4 weeks
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield4 weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustWiltshire4 weeks
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes5 weeks
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow5 weeks
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustReading5 weeks
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNewcastle upon Tyne5 weeks
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustKirklees6 weeks
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole6 weeks
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington6 weeks
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation TrustKensington and Chelsea7 weeks
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation TrustSouthend-on-Sea7 weeks
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMiddlesbrough8 weeks
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustPortsmouth8 weeks
Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustWest Northamptonshire9 weeks
Airedale NHS Foundation TrustBradford9 weeks
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston9 weeks
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS TrustLewisham9 weeks
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustWakefield10 weeks
East Cheshire NHS TrustCheshire East10 weeks
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustCanterbury10 weeks
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth Tyneside11 weeks
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS TrustCoventry11 weeks
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustGateshead12 weeks
Bolton NHS Foundation TrustBolton12 weeks
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBradford12 weeks
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustBath and North East Somerset12 weeks
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation TrustNorth Yorkshire13 weeks
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSunderland13 weeks
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustReigate and Banstead13 weeks
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustKingston upon Hull, City of13 weeks
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham13 weeks
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS TrustStoke-on-Trent14 weeks
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBarnsley14 weeks
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustCornwall14 weeks
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation TrustWarrington15 weeks
Stockport NHS Foundation TrustStockport15 weeks
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLuton15 weeks
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLeeds15 weeks
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustSandwell15 weeks
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustGuildford16 weeks
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSwindon17 weeks
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation TrustDerby17 weeks
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustDudley18 weeks
The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustRotherham18 weeks
East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustHastings18 weeks
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAshfield18 weeks
Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustManchester18 weeks
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation TrustNorth East Lincolnshire18 weeks
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS TrustShropshire18 weeks
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustHartlepool19 weeks
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustWarwick19 weeks
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton20 weeks
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustKnowsley20 weeks
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLincoln21 weeks
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth Norfolk21 weeks
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford21 weeks
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustOxford22 weeks
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustSalford22 weeks
Wye Valley NHS TrustHerefordshire, County of23 weeks
Medway NHS Foundation TrustMedway23 weeks
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustMaidstone23 weeks
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge24 weeks
Dartford and Gravesham NHS TrustDartford24 weeks
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage24 weeks
Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustWalsall25 weeks
North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustPeterborough26 weeks
North Bristol NHS TrustBristol, City of26 weeks
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustKing's Lynn and West Norfolk26 weeks
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustSutton26 weeks
George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustNuneaton and Bedworth27 weeks
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustHavering27 weeks
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustBlackburn with Darwen27 weeks
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDoncaster28 weeks
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustCheshire West and Chester29 weeks
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustHillingdon30 weeks
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustWorcester30 weeks
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustHackney30 weeks
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustNorth Northamptonshire32 weeks
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustExeter32 weeks
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool34 weeks
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustLeicester36 weeks
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGreat Yarmouth36 weeks
Barts Health NHS TrustTower Hamlets36 weeks
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation TrustKingston upon Thames37 weeks
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustWestmorland and Furness37 weeks
London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustBrent37 weeks
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustWolverhampton38 weeks
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation TrustDorset39 weeks
Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustSurrey Heath39 weeks
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheshire East39 weeks
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustBuckinghamshire40 weeks
West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustWest Suffolk42 weeks
Isle of Wight NHS TrustIsle of Wight42 weeks
Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustWestminster43 weeks
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKensington and Chelsea43 weeks
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWigan43 weeks
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation TrustColchester44 weeks
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNottingham44 weeks
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustWorthing44 weeks
Croydon Health Services NHS TrustCroydon46 weeks
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWandsworth46 weeks
Whittington Health NHS TrustIslington47 weeks
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLambeth50 weeks
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke and Deane51 weeks
Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustCamden51 weeks
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCumberland53 weeks

108 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for June 2026. We show only acute trusts with a confident sample size, so a small-volume or community service can't distort the ranking. 9 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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