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Orthopaedics waiting times at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,374 people were on the Orthopaedics at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
5,374
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.7%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
40
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

40 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) 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 13.9% of everyone waiting at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 12.6 percentage points (43% to 56%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (54.0% in March 2026); up 9.6 points over 6 months (46.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +12.6 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 202543.1%
August 202540.8%
September 202542.3%
October 202543.3%
November 202544.3%
December 202546.1%
January 202647.3%
February 202650.2%
March 202654%
April 202655.3%
May 202656.7%
June 202655.7%

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 The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,21243.1%591
August 20256,12740.8%637
September 20256,15542.3%566
October 20256,03143.3%527
November 20255,84144.3%528
December 20255,77646.1%417
January 20265,73647.3%339
February 20265,28850.2%225
March 20265,20354.0%71
April 20265,33755.3%38
May 20265,43056.7%37
June 20265,37455.7%40

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 mi5,12462%+6 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust16.3 mi2,53659%+3.7 pp
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust16.6 mi4,60948%-7.5 pp
Whittington Health NHS Trust17.2 mi2,20278%+21.9 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust18.6 mi8,71058%+2 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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