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Orthopaedics waiting times at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,199 people were on the Orthopaedics at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (53%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
5,199
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
52.9%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
153
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

153 people (2.9%, roughly 1 in 34) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.7 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 7.2% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 2.6 percentage points (56% to 53%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 4 points over 3 months (56.9% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (51.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -2.6 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 202555.5%
August 202554%
September 202554.7%
October 202552.6%
November 202551.8%
December 202551.7%
January 202652.7%
February 202652.7%
March 202656.9%
April 202655.2%
May 202653.7%
June 202652.9%

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 North Midlands NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,25955.5%237
August 20256,08054.0%189
September 20255,92054.7%153
October 20255,95452.6%174
November 20255,76751.8%205
December 20255,61151.7%233
January 20265,79852.7%236
February 20265,64752.7%265
March 20265,44256.9%189
April 20265,41255.2%162
May 20265,36153.7%150
June 20265,19952.9%153

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
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi3,10060%+6.7 pp
East Cheshire NHS Trust18.1 mi1,54358%+4.6 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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