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Orthopaedics waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 11,874 people were on the Orthopaedics at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (40%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
11,874
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
40.3%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
832
Median wait
23 wks
Published median for this list

832 people (7.0%, roughly 1 in 14) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 20.3 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 10.3% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester 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 8.1 percentage points (32% to 40%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (39.5% in March 2026); up 11.3 points over 6 months (29.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.1 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 202532.2%
August 202530.7%
September 202530.4%
October 202525.7%
November 202528.9%
December 202529%
January 202625.5%
February 202636.4%
March 202639.5%
April 202639.1%
May 202640.2%
June 202640.3%

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 University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20259,53832.2%635
August 202510,18730.7%763
September 202510,36130.4%870
October 20259,34025.7%813
November 20259,60728.9%788
December 20259,49729.0%732
January 20268,96125.5%688
February 202611,11636.4%627
March 202610,88539.5%558
April 202611,28239.1%654
May 202611,69740.2%750
June 202611,87440.3%832

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
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust16.4 mi2,00377%+36.7 pp
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust19.1 mi5,50660%+19.7 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi7,25360%+19.8 pp
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.7 mi1,89066%+25.3 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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