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Orthopaedics waiting times at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,798 people were on the Orthopaedics at North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
2,798
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.0%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
35
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

35 people (1.3%, roughly 1 in 77) 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; 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 North Cumbria Integrated Care 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 13.3 percentage points (47% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 6 points over 3 months (54.0% in March 2026); up 11.8 points over 6 months (48.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +13.3 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 202546.7%
August 202547%
September 202549.1%
October 202548.4%
November 202546.9%
December 202548.2%
January 202649%
February 202649.4%
March 202654%
April 202654.8%
May 202658.3%
June 202660%

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 North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,14646.7%142
August 20253,09247.0%175
September 20252,99849.1%183
October 20252,92248.4%203
November 20252,78946.9%186
December 20252,71248.2%137
January 20262,74449.0%144
February 20262,63849.4%110
March 20262,56154.0%46
April 20262,59054.8%47
May 20262,76158.3%35
June 20262,79860.0%35

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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