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Orthopaedics waiting times at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of July 2026, 2,803 people were on the Orthopaedics at Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (58%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
2,803
End of July 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.7%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
24
Median wait
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Published median for this list

24 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) 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 July 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.7 percentage points (52% to 58%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4 points over 3 months (53.7% in April 2026); up 5.8 points over 6 months (51.9% in January 2026); up 5.7 points over 12 months (52.0% in July 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +5.7 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 13 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202552%
August 202553.1%
September 202551.9%
October 202553%
November 202554.4%
December 202553.6%
January 202651.9%
February 202654.5%
March 202652.9%
April 202653.7%
May 202655.1%
June 202658.5%
July 202657.7%

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 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,66452.0%60
August 20252,56453.1%66
September 20252,60551.9%58
October 20252,60853.0%44
November 20252,71554.4%50
December 20252,73853.6%63
January 20262,68951.9%73
February 20262,74154.5%64
March 20262,69652.9%38
April 20262,86653.7%24
May 20262,72255.1%41
June 20262,76058.5%38
July 20262,80357.7%24

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
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13 mi1,95565%—
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.8 mi3,07157%—

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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