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Orthopaedics waiting times at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,483 people were on the Orthopaedics at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (43%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
3,483
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
42.5%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
200
Median wait
22 wks
Published median for this list

200 people (5.7%, roughly 1 in 18) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.1 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 15.4% of everyone waiting at Dorset County 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 worsened by 5.7 percentage points (48% to 43%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.1 points over 3 months (45.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (42.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -5.7 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 202548.2%
August 202546.9%
September 202544.6%
October 202543.1%
November 202542.7%
December 202542.3%
January 202644%
February 202644.2%
March 202645.6%
April 202641.1%
May 202643.4%
June 202642.5%

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 Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,48748.2%116
August 20253,60146.9%119
September 20253,49044.6%128
October 20253,52843.1%137
November 20253,58442.7%129
December 20253,61042.3%135
January 20263,69244.0%170
February 20263,63044.2%181
March 20263,53445.6%155
April 20263,46741.1%181
May 20263,55443.4%200
June 20263,48342.5%200

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
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust20.7 mi8,04855%+12.1 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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