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Orthopaedics waiting times at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 10,165 people were on the Orthopaedics at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (78%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
10,165
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.0%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
103
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

103 people (1.0%, roughly 1 in 100) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 17.4 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 18.2% of everyone waiting at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 2.6 percentage points (81% to 78%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (77.4% in March 2026); down 2.6 points over 6 months (80.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -2.6 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 202580.6%
August 202579.5%
September 202580.9%
October 202581.1%
November 202581.2%
December 202580.6%
January 202676.9%
February 202676.8%
March 202677.4%
April 202676.5%
May 202676.9%
June 202678%

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 Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20259,36680.6%84
August 20259,77679.5%78
September 20259,72180.9%83
October 20259,71181.1%108
November 20259,48181.2%89
December 20259,37880.6%100
January 20268,37076.9%90
February 20269,44676.8%134
March 20269,52577.4%109
April 20269,53676.5%122
May 20269,98276.9%131
June 202610,16578.0%103

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
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust23.8 mi3,434100%+21.9 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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