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Orthopaedics waiting times at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,002 people were on the Orthopaedics at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (50%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
3,002
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
50.2%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
117
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 10.4 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 8.3% of everyone waiting at Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 9.6 percentage points (41% to 50%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (50.9% in March 2026); up 6.9 points over 6 months (43.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9.6 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 202540.6%
August 202540.6%
September 202542.3%
October 202543.5%
November 202542.1%
December 202543.3%
January 202649.5%
February 202648.2%
March 202650.9%
April 202649.5%
May 202649.7%
June 202650.2%

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 Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,66040.6%259
August 20253,84340.6%284
September 20253,82742.3%310
October 20253,68443.5%294
November 20253,33942.1%271
December 20253,30143.3%249
January 20263,39949.5%197
February 20263,17948.2%162
March 20262,97550.9%134
April 20263,07849.5%149
May 20263,13149.7%130
June 20263,00250.2%117

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
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi6,74942%-8.2 pp
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust15.8 mi2,76058%+8.3 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust23.4 mi4,60948%-2.1 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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