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Orthopaedics waiting times at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,417 people were on the Orthopaedics at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
2,417
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.6%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) 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 7.4% of everyone waiting at Countess of Chester 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 5.6 percentage points (57% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 6.5 points over 3 months (69.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (63.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.6 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 202557%
August 202556.7%
September 202562.9%
October 202565.6%
November 202565%
December 202563.9%
January 202666%
February 202666.2%
March 202669.1%
April 202665.5%
May 202661.3%
June 202662.6%

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 Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,03657.0%122
August 20252,14656.7%153
September 20252,17062.9%117
October 20252,07665.6%107
November 20252,11165.0%97
December 20252,18463.9%96
January 20262,25266.0%87
February 20262,23566.2%72
March 20262,03769.1%3
April 20262,20565.5%1
May 20262,28761.3%0
June 20262,41762.6%2

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
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi2,61453%-9.2 pp
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi4,61452%-11 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15.3 mi7,71469%+6.4 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust17.4 mi3,45351%-11.5 pp
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust18.6 mi3,10060%-3 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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