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Orthopaedics waiting times at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,470 people were on the Orthopaedics at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
4,470
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.8%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
28
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

28 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 7.5% of everyone waiting at Cambridge University 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 improved by 2.8 percentage points (53% to 56%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (54.3% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (55.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2.8 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 202553%
August 202553%
September 202554.9%
October 202555.7%
November 202556.3%
December 202555.3%
January 202654.5%
February 202654%
March 202654.3%
April 202653.4%
May 202654.6%
June 202655.8%

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 Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,37353.0%83
August 20254,42353.0%82
September 20254,59554.9%75
October 20254,41355.7%57
November 20254,51156.3%57
December 20254,60355.3%40
January 20264,63754.5%27
February 20264,56754.0%31
March 20264,44454.3%15
April 20264,48653.4%14
May 20264,41054.6%25
June 20264,47055.8%28

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 Trust22.9 mi4,60948%-7.6 pp
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust24.4 mi4,43852%-3.5 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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