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Orthopaedics waiting times at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,423 people were on the Orthopaedics at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
3,423
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.7%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
205
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

205 people (6.0%, roughly 1 in 17) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 5.9 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; 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 Plymouth 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 2.7 percentage points (52% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 4 points over 3 months (50.7% in March 2026); up 4.5 points over 6 months (50.2% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2.7 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 202552%
August 202551.8%
September 202552%
October 202551.6%
November 202551.4%
December 202550.2%
January 202650.7%
February 202650.6%
March 202650.7%
April 202651.8%
May 202653.8%
June 202654.7%

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 Plymouth NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,65252.0%143
August 20253,67951.8%146
September 20253,54552.0%139
October 20253,54051.6%171
November 20253,49951.4%185
December 20253,38350.2%189
January 20263,28350.7%195
February 20263,25750.6%162
March 20263,22050.7%137
April 20263,28351.8%139
May 20263,37053.8%168
June 20263,42354.7%205

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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