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Orthopaedics waiting times at Isle of Wight NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,214 people were on the Orthopaedics at Isle of Wight NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (49%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Isle of Wight NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
2,214
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
48.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
86
Median wait
19 wks
Published median for this list

86 people (3.9%, roughly 1 in 26) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.7 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 17.3% of everyone waiting at Isle of Wight 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 4.3 percentage points (53% to 49%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4.2 points over 3 months (44.7% in March 2026); up 2.9 points over 6 months (46.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4.3 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 202553.2%
August 202552.2%
September 202552.7%
October 202550.4%
November 202548.3%
December 202546%
January 202645.7%
February 202645.5%
March 202644.7%
April 202645.2%
May 202645.9%
June 202648.9%

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 Isle of Wight NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,64053.2%47
August 20252,68252.2%50
September 20252,68052.7%16
October 20252,66450.4%17
November 20252,60748.3%25
December 20252,51146.0%35
January 20262,42345.7%52
February 20262,28945.5%37
March 20262,15944.7%39
April 20262,12745.2%59
May 20262,13445.9%72
June 20262,21448.9%86

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
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust14 mi5,21049%-0.2 pp
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust16.4 mi3,97752%+2.8 pp
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust18.2 mi3,46185%+36.1 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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