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Orthopaedics waiting times at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,614 people were on the Orthopaedics at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (52%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
4,614
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
51.6%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
175
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

175 people (3.8%, roughly 1 in 26) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9 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 7.3% of everyone waiting at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (50% to 52%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3 points over 3 months (54.6% in March 2026); up 4 points over 6 months (47.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +1.6 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 202550%
August 202548.4%
September 202548.5%
October 202549.2%
November 202547.6%
December 202547.6%
January 202647%
February 202645.7%
March 202654.6%
April 202651.2%
May 202652.8%
June 202651.6%

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 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,17750.0%199
August 20255,16048.4%195
September 20255,06448.5%186
October 20254,95149.2%178
November 20254,96247.6%184
December 20255,01947.6%139
January 20265,07647.0%92
February 20265,23745.7%139
March 20264,76954.6%142
April 20264,65451.2%173
May 20264,65952.8%168
June 20264,61451.6%175

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
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust6.1 mi2,61453%+1.8 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust7.4 mi7,71469%+17.4 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi2,41763%+11 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust14.6 mi3,45351%-0.5 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust17.2 mi8,97762%+10.4 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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