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Orthopaedics waiting times at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 5,501 people were on the Orthopaedics at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
5,501
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.0%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
48
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

48 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 6.9 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 13.7% of everyone waiting at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Orthopaedics, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Orthopaedics at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 54% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 40.8% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
54%
3 months earlier · May 2026
56.7% then · change to latest -2.7 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
50.2% then · change to latest +3.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
40.8% then · change to latest +13.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
43.5% then · change to latest +10.5 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202654%5,501
July 202655.8%5,458
June 202655.7%5,374
May 202656.7%5,430
April 202655.3%5,337
March 202654%5,203
February 202650.2%5,288
January 202647.3%5,736
December 202546.1%5,776
November 202544.3%5,841
October 202543.3%6,031
September 202542.3%6,155
August 202540.8%6,127
July 202543.1%6,212
June 202543.7%6,085
May 202542.8%6,050
April 202542.2%5,906
March 202542.4%6,021
February 202535.3%6,834
January 202535.8%7,072
December 202436.4%6,105
November 202442.1%6,160
October 202441.6%4,929
September 202443.1%4,966
August 202443.7%4,983
July 202444.6%5,043
June 202444.5%3,506
May 202444.1%3,103
April 202443.5%2,843
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • Trauma and Orthopaedics covers many conditions and operations. These figures are not specific to hip or knee replacement.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust14.5 mi4,36460%+6 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust16.3 mi2,58059%+4.6 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust16.6 mi4,91748%-6.4 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust17.2 mi2,08978%+24.1 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust18.6 mi8,89356%+1.5 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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