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Orthopaedics waiting times at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 10,308 people were on the Orthopaedics at Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (49%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
10,308
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
48.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
551
Median wait
19 wks
Published median for this list

551 people (5.3%, roughly 1 in 19) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.7 percentage points behind the England figure 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 13.9% of everyone waiting at Royal Devon University Healthcare 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 (48% to 49%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (47.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (48.8% 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 202547.5%
August 202547.8%
September 202548.4%
October 202548.7%
November 202549.6%
December 202548.8%
January 202647.6%
February 202648%
March 202647.6%
April 202647.2%
May 202648.9%
June 202648.9%

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 Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202510,68347.5%527
August 202511,03047.8%574
September 202511,09148.4%629
October 202511,07448.7%622
November 202510,57549.6%581
December 202510,36148.8%572
January 202610,35047.6%574
February 202610,23748.0%538
March 202610,09847.6%451
April 202610,28447.2%480
May 202610,39048.9%529
June 202610,30848.9%551

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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