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Orthopaedics waiting times at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,762 people were on the Orthopaedics at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
6,762
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
11
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 18.3 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 14.3% of everyone waiting at East Lancashire Hospitals 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 6 percentage points (73% to 79%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (78.1% in March 2026); up 5.7 points over 6 months (73.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +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 202572.9%
August 202572.1%
September 202572.6%
October 202570.1%
November 202570.7%
December 202573.2%
January 202675.1%
February 202675.9%
March 202678.1%
April 202677.9%
May 202678.3%
June 202678.9%

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 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,36072.9%133
August 20256,43272.1%107
September 20256,11172.6%81
October 20255,76170.1%78
November 20255,88770.7%59
December 20256,53773.2%50
January 20266,47075.1%31
February 20266,57075.9%27
March 20266,42478.1%5
April 20266,41177.9%7
May 20266,42578.3%18
June 20266,76278.9%11

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
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust7.3 mi3,79091%+11.8 pp
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi4,56153%-25.6 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi2,27552%-27.1 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14 mi8,97762%-16.9 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust18.1 mi14,09258%-20.7 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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