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Orthopaedics waiting times at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 14,092 people were on the Orthopaedics at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (58%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
14,092
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
58.2%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
535
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

535 people (3.8%, roughly 1 in 26) 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; 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 10.5% of everyone waiting at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (57% to 58%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (58.1% in March 2026); up 2.5 points over 6 months (55.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +1.4 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 202556.8%
August 202556.4%
September 202557.3%
October 202556.5%
November 202555.8%
December 202555.7%
January 202654.1%
February 202655.1%
March 202658.1%
April 202658.3%
May 202657.9%
June 202658.2%

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 Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202514,20356.8%430
August 202514,50556.4%474
September 202514,50357.3%485
October 202514,25256.5%472
November 202514,08855.8%532
December 202513,74255.7%472
January 202613,78954.1%480
February 202612,84655.1%504
March 202613,21258.1%504
April 202613,49558.3%477
May 202613,74857.9%530
June 202614,09258.2%535

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
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi12,29557%-0.9 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi2,27552%-6.4 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi3,13767%+9.1 pp
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi6,28060%+1.4 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi8,97762%+3.8 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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