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Orthopaedics waiting times at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,917 people were on the Orthopaedics at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (48%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
4,917
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
47.7%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
273
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

273 people (5.6%, roughly 1 in 18) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 13.2 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 8.5% of everyone waiting at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Orthopaedics, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Orthopaedics at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 47.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 42.6% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
47.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
48.7% then · change to latest -1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
51.8% then · change to latest -4.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
42.6% then · change to latest +5.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
38.5% then · change to latest +9.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202647.7%4,917
July 202648.6%4,771
June 202648.2%4,609
May 202648.7%4,336
April 202649.2%4,241
March 202652.3%4,183
February 202651.8%4,226
January 202650.9%4,260
December 202552.3%4,388
November 202552.4%4,340
October 202550.2%4,346
September 202547%4,429
August 202542.6%4,542
July 202544.5%4,958
June 202545.2%4,997
May 202544.3%5,232
April 202543.8%5,232
March 202544%5,168
February 202543.9%5,049
January 202545.3%4,989
December 202445.9%4,914
November 202447.2%5,182
October 202445.8%5,231
September 202444.4%5,041
August 202440.2%5,000
July 202440.8%5,202
June 202440.9%5,226
May 202441.2%5,230
April 202438.5%5,192
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • Trauma and Orthopaedics covers many conditions and operations. These figures are not specific to hip or knee replacement.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi7,42646%-2.1 pp
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust16.6 mi5,50154%+6.4 pp
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust20.6 mi4,77478%+30.1 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust20.7 mi5,04753%+5.6 pp
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust22.9 mi4,46258%+10.4 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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