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Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 8,908 people were on the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (76%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · London · ODS code RAN

People waiting (all services)
8,908
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
75.9%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
9
Services reported
5
with people currently waiting

9 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics4,52875%60.6%4+4.8 pp
Rheumatology45778%70.8%0-5.8 pp
Urology9794%65.0%0+21.7 pp
Gastroenterology989%69.3%0+38.9 pp
Plastic surgery7100%59.3%0+25 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.5 percentage points (70% to 76%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.9 points over 3 months (72.0% in March 2026); up 5 points over 6 months (70.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.5 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 202570.4%
August 202571.8%
September 202573.2%
October 202573.2%
November 202573%
December 202570.9%
January 202670.7%
February 202671.5%
March 202672%
April 202670.5%
May 202674.1%
June 202675.9%

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 all-services figures for Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20258,75370.4%58
August 20259,00371.8%50
September 20259,10473.2%42
October 20259,11373.2%41
November 20259,84873.0%35
December 20259,70770.9%30
January 20269,31270.7%22
February 20269,26671.5%15
March 20269,15872.0%14
April 20268,73770.5%7
May 20268,80074.1%5
June 20268,90875.9%9

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

Appointment letters carry the contact route for the team holding the referral. We only list contact details we have checked against the organisation's own published pages, and none are listed here yet.

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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