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Orthopaedics waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 11,858 people were on the Orthopaedics at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (39%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
11,858
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
39.1%
England: 60.9%
Over 52 weeks
968
Median wait
24 wks
Published median for this list

968 people (8.2%, roughly 1 in 12) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 21.8 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 10.3% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Orthopaedics at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 39.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 30.7% 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
39.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
40.2% then · change to latest -1.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
36.4% then · change to latest +2.7 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
30.7% then · change to latest +8.4 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
47.7% then · change to latest -8.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202639.1%11,858
July 202639.3%11,894
June 202640.3%11,874
May 202640.2%11,697
April 202639.1%11,282
March 202639.5%10,885
February 202636.4%11,116
January 202625.5%8,961
December 202529%9,497
November 202528.9%9,607
October 202525.7%9,340
September 202530.4%10,361
August 202530.7%10,187
July 202532.2%9,538
June 202537.3%9,709
May 202536.9%9,781
April 202532.9%9,777
March 202534.4%10,091
February 202535.9%10,383
January 202539.9%10,858
December 202443.9%11,235
November 202444.8%10,919
October 202446.6%10,938
September 202445.6%10,751
August 202446.3%10,949
July 202446.8%10,517
June 202447.8%10,472
May 202445.2%10,067
April 202447.7%10,377
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
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust16.4 mi2,12579%+39.7 pp
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust19.1 mi5,00862%+22.5 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi7,94253%+13.8 pp
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.7 mi1,95565%+25.9 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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