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Orthopaedics waiting times at North Bristol NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,256 people were on the Orthopaedics at North Bristol NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

North Bristol NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
6,256
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
63.3%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
16
Median wait
—
Published median for this list

16 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

We do not have both figures for this service, so we are not making a comparison.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (63% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.5 points over 3 months (65.8% in March 2026); up 2.4 points over 6 months (60.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +0.5 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 202562.8%
August 202563.3%
September 202565%
October 202563%
November 202561.3%
December 202560.9%
January 202660.4%
February 202662.2%
March 202665.8%
April 202664.9%
May 202663.8%
June 202663.3%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Orthopaedics figures at North Bristol NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,16762.8%3
August 20255,26063.3%0
September 20255,27465.0%0
October 20255,34263.0%0
November 20255,38861.3%0
December 20255,43460.9%0
January 20265,41660.4%0
February 20265,43362.2%0
March 20265,45665.8%4
April 20265,77964.9%1
May 20266,03063.8%5
June 20266,25663.3%16

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
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust2.4 mi8,55062%—
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust11.2 mi2,69669%—

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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