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Orthopaedics waiting times at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,151 people were on the Orthopaedics at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (64%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
3,151
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 3.8% of everyone waiting at Imperial College Healthcare 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 10.1 percentage points (54% to 64%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (64.4% in March 2026); up 7 points over 6 months (56.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +10.1 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 202553.8%
August 202553.8%
September 202552.1%
October 202553.2%
November 202554.5%
December 202556.9%
January 202660.4%
February 202664.6%
March 202664.4%
April 202663.5%
May 202663.7%
June 202663.9%

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 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,91253.8%68
August 20253,02253.8%69
September 20252,90052.1%79
October 20252,98853.2%55
November 20252,91754.5%29
December 20252,90556.9%26
January 20262,91060.4%17
February 20262,94664.6%13
March 20262,88464.4%2
April 20262,99063.5%2
May 20262,99163.7%1
June 20263,15163.9%0

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 College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1.7 mi3,33876%+12.6 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi5,51154%-9.8 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust2.5 mi10,88051%-13.3 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust2.7 mi5,07662%-1.6 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust3.7 mi2,20278%+13.7 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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