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Orthopaedics waiting times at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,659 people were on the Orthopaedics at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (83%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
3,659
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
83.2%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

This hospital's published position is 22.3 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. This service accounts for 80% of everyone waiting at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare 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 deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Orthopaedics at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 83.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 91.4% 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
83.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
86.9% then · change to latest -3.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
91.5% then · change to latest -8.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
91.4% then · change to latest -8.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
95.6% then · change to latest -12.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202683.2%3,659
July 202683.2%3,528
June 202685%3,461
May 202686.9%3,433
April 202686.5%3,236
March 202688.9%3,158
February 202691.5%3,175
January 202691.7%3,015
December 202590.9%2,995
November 202590.5%3,279
October 202590.6%3,035
September 202591%2,863
August 202591.4%2,976
July 202591.1%2,905
June 202591.9%2,745
May 202591.4%2,840
April 202590.9%2,727
March 202588.7%2,459
February 202587.1%2,210
January 202589.9%2,186
December 202489.6%2,295
November 202489.3%2,155
October 202489.5%2,254
September 202490.7%2,115
August 202492.5%2,247
July 202494.4%2,364
June 202495.8%2,390
May 202495.3%2,269
April 202495.6%2,023
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
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust4.1 mi4,08151%-32.5 pp
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust13.7 mi2,93066%-17.1 pp
Isle of Wight NHS Trust18.2 mi2,26952%-31 pp
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust20.8 mi5,01149%-34 pp
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust24.1 mi8,47654%-29.4 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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