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Orthopaedics waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 11,377 people were on the Orthopaedics at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 3 in 10 people (29%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
11,377
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
28.7%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
2,418
Median wait
31 wks
Published median for this list

2,418 people (21.3%, roughly 1 in 5) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 32.2 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 6.9% of everyone waiting at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Orthopaedics, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Orthopaedics at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 28.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 38.6% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
28.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
31.1% then · change to latest -2.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
40.1% then · change to latest -11.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
38.6% then · change to latest -10 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
44.9% then · change to latest -16.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202628.7%11,377
July 202627.3%12,268
June 202630.9%13,260
May 202631.1%14,678
April 202633%16,131
March 202639.1%17,162
February 202640.1%17,881
January 202636.8%18,233
December 202536%19,124
November 202536.8%18,877
October 202536.8%18,924
September 202537.7%18,398
August 202538.6%18,316
July 202537.2%18,014
June 202537.7%18,117
May 202537.7%18,223
April 202533.6%17,761
March 202535.9%18,153
February 202538.6%18,321
January 202540.6%18,758
December 202443.8%18,628
November 202446.3%17,832
October 202448.6%18,298
September 202447%17,750
August 202446.1%17,315
July 202446.9%15,904
June 202446.2%16,261
May 202446.2%15,683
April 202444.9%15,734
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • Trauma and Orthopaedics covers many conditions and operations. These figures are not specific to hip or knee replacement.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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 mi3,11654%+25.4 pp
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust20.2 mi5,00351%+22.1 pp
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust21.3 mi4,27176%+46.9 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust21.9 mi4,36460%+31.4 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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