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Orthopaedics waiting times at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,712 people were on the Orthopaedics at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (77%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
4,712
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
77.2%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

This hospital's published position is 16.3 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 4.9% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Orthopaedics at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 77.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 82.4% 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
77.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
76.4% then · change to latest +0.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
77.8% then · change to latest -0.6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
82.4% then · change to latest -5.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
57.1% then · change to latest +20.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202677.2%4,712
July 202677.3%4,540
June 202677.7%4,067
May 202676.4%4,022
April 202674.1%3,647
March 202675.9%3,559
February 202677.8%3,480
January 202679.2%3,658
December 202580%3,842
November 202581.9%3,749
October 202583.2%3,719
September 202581.5%3,648
August 202582.4%3,505
July 202581.4%3,413
June 202580.4%3,139
May 202577.9%3,232
April 202575.3%3,054
March 202572.6%3,074
February 202571.6%3,150
January 202570.4%3,215
December 202466.9%3,479
November 202468.3%3,489
October 202465.5%3,516
September 202462.9%3,764
August 202460.6%3,970
July 202457.5%3,980
June 202457.9%4,161
May 202458.9%4,235
April 202457.1%4,253
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
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi11,09864%-12.7 pp
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust2.7 mi6,09559%-18.5 pp
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust3.1 mi10%-77.2 pp
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi52100%+22.8 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust8.1 mi4,25064%-13.6 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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