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Orthopaedics waiting times at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,343 people were on the Orthopaedics at Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
2,343
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
50.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
63
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

63 people (2.7%, roughly 1 in 37) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.7 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 8.7% of everyone waiting at Chesterfield Royal Hospital 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 percentage points (49% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.1 points over 3 months (47.8% in March 2026); up 5.2 points over 6 months (45.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2 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 202548.9%
August 202549.9%
September 202547.9%
October 202548.1%
November 202547.2%
December 202545.7%
January 202643.9%
February 202644.5%
March 202647.8%
April 202650.1%
May 202648.4%
June 202650.9%

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 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,57248.9%137
August 20252,68349.9%167
September 20252,73747.9%192
October 20252,67348.1%171
November 20252,60847.2%179
December 20252,53645.7%196
January 20262,49143.9%196
February 20262,39744.5%162
March 20262,25947.8%70
April 20262,27750.1%43
May 20262,31448.4%77
June 20262,34350.9%63

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
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust9.7 mi3,00561%+10.4 pp
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust12.5 mi4,43852%+1.1 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi7,25360%+9.2 pp
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.8 mi2,61858%+7.2 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust23 mi17,40149%-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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