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Orthopaedics waiting times at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 15,021 people were on the Orthopaedics at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (43%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
15,021
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
42.8%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
2,409
Median wait
22 wks
Published median for this list

2,409 people (16.0%, roughly 1 in 6) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 17.8 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 64.2% of everyone waiting at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital 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 5.1 percentage points (38% to 43%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.4 points over 3 months (40.4% in March 2026); up 5.3 points over 6 months (37.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.1 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 202537.7%
August 202538%
September 202540.4%
October 202539.9%
November 202539.6%
December 202537.5%
January 202637.4%
February 202637.1%
March 202640.4%
April 202640.6%
May 202642%
June 202642.8%

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 Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202518,04737.7%3,329
August 202518,10938.0%3,361
September 202518,41140.4%3,460
October 202518,20039.9%3,383
November 202517,78639.6%3,290
December 202517,36137.5%3,226
January 202616,70037.4%3,130
February 202616,04637.1%2,994
March 202615,52840.4%2,671
April 202615,30940.6%2,629
May 202615,23642.0%2,510
June 202615,02142.8%2,409

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
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust15.7 mi2,24948%+5.5 pp
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust18.7 mi7,05185%+42.5 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust23.1 mi2,41763%+19.8 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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