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Orthopaedics waiting times at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 7,920 people were on the Orthopaedics at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (67%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
7,920
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
66.5%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
146
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

146 people (1.8%, roughly 1 in 56) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.6 percentage points better than the England figure for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 14.4% of everyone waiting at Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Orthopaedics, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Orthopaedics at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 66.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 65.8% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
66.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
65.1% then · change to latest +1.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
63.2% then · change to latest +3.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
65.8% then · change to latest +0.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
71.7% then · change to latest -5.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202666.5%7,920
July 202665%7,847
June 202665.7%7,884
May 202665.1%7,446
April 202664.5%7,136
March 202665.2%7,087
February 202663.2%7,203
January 202665%7,357
December 202569%7,270
November 202569%7,669
October 202566.8%8,208
September 202566.1%8,966
August 202565.8%8,930
July 202566.2%8,484
June 202566.8%8,426
May 202564.4%8,145
April 202563.4%8,433
March 202563.7%8,339
February 202564.6%7,905
January 202567.1%7,677
December 202470.6%7,689
November 202471.5%7,094
October 202474.5%7,704
September 202473%7,091
August 202472.6%6,829
July 202474.3%6,591
June 202474.3%6,440
May 202473.6%6,233
April 202471.7%6,078
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • Trauma and Orthopaedics covers many conditions and operations. These figures are not specific to hip or knee replacement.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Orthopaedics
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi5,95163%-3.7 pp
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi12,24054%-12.8 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.6 mi5,99360%-6.7 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust10.8 mi2,77657%-9.9 pp
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust14.8 mi6,88562%-4.5 pp

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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