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Orthopaedics waiting times at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,625 people were on the Orthopaedics at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
6,625
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.2%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
63
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

63 people (1.0%, roughly 1 in 100) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.6 percentage points better than 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 9.2% of everyone waiting at The Royal Wolverhampton 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 2.1 percentage points (66% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (68.4% in March 2026); up 5.2 points over 6 months (63.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2.1 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 202566.1%
August 202565.3%
September 202565.1%
October 202563.9%
November 202564.8%
December 202563%
January 202662.9%
February 202664.1%
March 202668.4%
April 202665.3%
May 202665.7%
June 202668.2%

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 Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,46966.1%62
August 20256,60265.3%62
September 20256,41265.1%68
October 20256,45663.9%87
November 20256,63564.8%123
December 20256,83563.0%143
January 20267,56062.9%150
February 20267,44864.1%130
March 20266,88568.4%77
April 20266,80565.3%107
May 20266,69965.7%71
June 20266,62568.2%63

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
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust4.2 mi3,80063%-5.3 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust6.8 mi4,07863%-5 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust9.7 mi5,87461%-7.2 pp
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust11.6 mi1100%+31.8 pp
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust11.7 mi7899%+30.5 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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