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Orthopaedics waiting times at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,142 people were on the Orthopaedics at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
3,142
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.3%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
114
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

114 people (3.6%, roughly 1 in 28) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.4 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; 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 6.2% of everyone waiting at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 4.7 percentage points (60% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (55.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (57.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4.7 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 202560%
August 202559.1%
September 202557.9%
October 202558.3%
November 202556.5%
December 202557.2%
January 202657%
February 202657.8%
March 202655.1%
April 202653.5%
May 202654.6%
June 202655.3%

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 Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,06160.0%27
August 20253,02559.1%30
September 20252,80357.9%35
October 20252,85058.3%44
November 20252,86256.5%56
December 20253,03657.2%54
January 20263,03257.0%78
February 20262,96557.8%75
March 20262,93455.1%67
April 20262,89053.5%77
May 20262,97854.6%76
June 20263,14255.3%114

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
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust11.2 mi6,76264%+9.2 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust12 mi3,89679%+24.2 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.3 mi3,98666%+10.9 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust14.5 mi3,24152%-3.3 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust17.3 mi6,28463%+7.7 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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