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Orthopaedics waiting times at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,896 people were on the Orthopaedics at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (80%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
3,896
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
79.5%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
8
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

8 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.9 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 10.5% of everyone waiting at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 4.6 percentage points (75% to 80%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.5 points over 3 months (77.0% in March 2026); up 4.3 points over 6 months (75.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.6 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 202574.9%
August 202575.4%
September 202577%
October 202577%
November 202576.5%
December 202575.2%
January 202673.3%
February 202673.3%
March 202677%
April 202675.8%
May 202677.1%
June 202679.5%

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 Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,22474.9%96
August 20255,13175.4%80
September 20254,79477.0%49
October 20254,55077.0%37
November 20254,41576.5%27
December 20254,03075.2%12
January 20263,87473.3%10
February 20263,68373.3%9
March 20263,57877.0%5
April 20263,53975.8%10
May 20263,66677.1%8
June 20263,89679.5%8

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
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust3.3 mi6,76264%-15 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.9 mi3,98666%-13.3 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust5.5 mi3,58858%-21 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust5.9 mi6,28463%-16.5 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust7.3 mi5,51154%-25.4 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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