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Orthopaedics waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 13,260 people were on the Orthopaedics at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 3 in 10 people (31%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
13,260
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
30.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
2,523
Median wait
29 wks
Published median for this list

2,523 people (19.0%, roughly 1 in 5) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 29.7 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 8% of everyone waiting at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 6.3 percentage points (37% to 31%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 8.2 points over 3 months (39.1% in March 2026); down 5.1 points over 6 months (36.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -6.3 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 202537.2%
August 202538.6%
September 202537.7%
October 202536.8%
November 202536.8%
December 202536%
January 202636.8%
February 202640.1%
March 202639.1%
April 202633%
May 202631.1%
June 202630.9%

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 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202518,01437.2%2,638
August 202518,31638.6%2,841
September 202518,39837.7%3,280
October 202518,92436.8%3,598
November 202518,87736.8%3,625
December 202519,12436.0%3,575
January 202618,23336.8%3,465
February 202617,88140.1%2,963
March 202617,16239.1%2,599
April 202616,13133.0%2,579
May 202614,67831.1%2,578
June 202613,26030.9%2,523

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
Medway NHS Foundation Trust13.6 mi2,91661%+29.7 pp
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust20.2 mi4,88751%+20.3 pp
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust21.3 mi4,23778%+46.8 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust21.9 mi5,12462%+30.9 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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