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Orthopaedics waiting times at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,797 people were on the Orthopaedics at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (58%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
5,797
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.6%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
228
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

228 people (3.9%, 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 18.5% of everyone waiting at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 8.2 percentage points (49% to 58%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.1 points over 3 months (54.5% in March 2026); up 4 points over 6 months (53.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.2 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 202549.4%
August 202553.5%
September 202555.8%
October 202555.3%
November 202555.5%
December 202553.6%
January 202650.7%
February 202652.6%
March 202654.5%
April 202654.3%
May 202655.6%
June 202657.6%

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 Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,80249.4%429
August 20255,57253.5%363
September 20255,53655.8%257
October 20255,71155.3%218
November 20255,59655.5%169
December 20255,56353.6%154
January 20265,51850.7%159
February 20265,69452.6%160
March 20265,86954.5%157
April 20265,86654.3%169
May 20265,72855.6%196
June 20265,79757.6%228

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
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust8 mi11,86754%-3.8 pp
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.1 mi7,88466%+8 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust18.5 mi3,24152%-5.7 pp
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust19.3 mi3,14255%-2.4 pp
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust20.7 mi5,68760%+2.3 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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