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Orthopaedics waiting times at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,749 people were on the Orthopaedics at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (42%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
6,749
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
42.0%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
334
Median wait
22 wks
Published median for this list

334 people (4.9%, roughly 1 in 20) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.6 percentage points behind 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 8.2% of everyone waiting at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 3.3 percentage points (45% to 42%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (43.5% in March 2026); down 2.1 points over 6 months (44.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -3.3 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202545.3%
August 202543.4%
September 202543.5%
October 202544.3%
November 202544.2%
December 202544.1%
January 202643.5%
February 202643.7%
March 202643.5%
April 202643.3%
May 202642.8%
June 202642%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Orthopaedics figures at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,09045.3%554
August 20257,14743.4%541
September 20257,13343.5%507
October 20257,34244.3%437
November 20257,32644.2%407
December 20257,37744.1%376
January 20267,31043.5%389
February 20267,14043.7%258
March 20266,82843.5%246
April 20266,42243.3%235
May 20266,68842.8%315
June 20266,74942.0%334

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
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust11.4 mi4,60948%+6.2 pp
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi3,00250%+8.2 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust17.2 mi4,82655%+13.2 pp
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust17.2 mi4,97755%+12.9 pp
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust19.4 mi4,52875%+33.2 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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