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Orthopaedics waiting times at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 9,687 people were on the Orthopaedics at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
9,687
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
50.6%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
7
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

7 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10 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 10.8% of everyone waiting at East Suffolk and North Essex 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 6.6 percentage points (44% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.8 points over 3 months (45.8% in March 2026); up 6.4 points over 6 months (44.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.6 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 202544%
August 202544.3%
September 202545.2%
October 202545.5%
November 202544.1%
December 202544.2%
January 202642%
February 202643.3%
March 202645.8%
April 202648.1%
May 202649.3%
June 202650.6%

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 East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202513,13644.0%648
August 202513,14344.3%588
September 202512,87145.2%598
October 202511,01945.5%504
November 202510,22844.1%428
December 20259,70944.2%183
January 20269,42342.0%116
February 20269,00443.3%100
March 202610,44345.8%26
April 202610,15348.1%20
May 20269,96749.3%15
June 20269,68750.6%7

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
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi4,43852%+1.7 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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