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Orthopaedics waiting times at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,582 people were on the Orthopaedics at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
6,582
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
48
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

48 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

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 8.1% of everyone waiting at London North West University 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 13 percentage points (47% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 6.5 points over 3 months (53.4% in March 2026); up 7.9 points over 6 months (52.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +13 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 202546.9%
August 202548.6%
September 202548%
October 202550.8%
November 202550.7%
December 202552%
January 202653.8%
February 202652.7%
March 202653.4%
April 202653.8%
May 202657.8%
June 202659.9%

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 London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,95546.9%376
August 20257,08848.6%345
September 20256,97448.0%330
October 20256,96850.8%303
November 20256,96550.7%227
December 20256,88452.0%165
January 20266,70653.8%122
February 20266,71752.7%163
March 20266,72853.4%144
April 20266,60653.8%111
May 20266,72057.8%88
June 20266,58259.9%48

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
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust4 mi4,52875%+15.3 pp
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust6.2 mi4,82655%-4.8 pp
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust6.9 mi10,88051%-9.4 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6.9 mi5,68760%0 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust7.5 mi3,15164%+3.9 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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