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Orthopaedics waiting times at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 7,253 people were on the Orthopaedics at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
7,253
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.1%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
248
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

248 people (3.4%, roughly 1 in 29) 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 9.1% of everyone waiting at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6 percentage points (54% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 6 points over 3 months (54.1% in March 2026); up 16.7 points over 6 months (43.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +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 202554.1%
August 202553.2%
September 202552%
October 202549.3%
November 202546.3%
December 202543.4%
January 202641.7%
February 202644.4%
March 202654.1%
April 202652.5%
May 202656.3%
June 202660.1%

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 Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20259,11054.1%183
August 20259,44553.2%171
September 20259,99752.0%202
October 202510,20549.3%217
November 202510,09746.3%313
December 202510,01543.4%241
January 20269,31641.7%269
February 20268,48844.4%225
March 20267,29854.1%128
April 20267,82952.5%224
May 20267,81856.3%264
June 20267,25360.1%248

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
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi3,00561%+1.2 pp
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi17,40149%-11.1 pp
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22 mi2,34351%-9.2 pp
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust22 mi11,87440%-19.8 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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