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

At the end of August 2026, 10,692 people were on the Orthopaedics at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
10,692
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.2%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
59
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

59 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.7 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 11.2% of everyone waiting at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation 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: 52.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 44.3% 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
52.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
49.3% then · change to latest +2.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
43.3% then · change to latest +8.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
44.3% then · change to latest +7.9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
40.6% then · change to latest +11.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202652.2%10,692
July 202652.1%10,734
June 202650.6%9,687
May 202649.3%9,967
April 202648.1%10,153
March 202645.8%10,443
February 202643.3%9,004
January 202642%9,423
December 202544.2%9,709
November 202544.1%10,228
October 202545.5%11,019
September 202545.2%12,871
August 202544.3%13,143
July 202544%13,136
June 202542.9%13,063
May 202542.1%13,081
April 202539.4%13,980
March 202541.4%12,936
February 202542.1%13,160
January 202543%13,350
December 202444.5%13,478
November 202444.8%13,161
October 202444.4%12,909
September 202443.9%12,841
August 202443.5%12,916
July 202443%12,559
June 202441.9%12,726
May 202441.6%12,922
April 202440.6%12,808
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
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi4,21551%-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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