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Orthopaedics waiting times at Whittington Health NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,089 people were on the Orthopaedics at Whittington Health NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (78%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Whittington Health NHS Trust · NHS trust · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
2,089
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.1%
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 17.2 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 9.2% of everyone waiting at Whittington Health NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Orthopaedics at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 78.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 75.2% 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
78.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
75% then · change to latest +3.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
75.8% then · change to latest +2.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
75.2% then · change to latest +2.9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
61.6% then · change to latest +16.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202678.1%2,089
July 202676.1%2,086
June 202677.6%2,202
May 202675%2,228
April 202674.8%2,248
March 202677.6%2,310
February 202675.8%2,354
January 202681.7%2,486
December 202583.4%2,487
November 202583%2,271
October 202580.2%1,818
September 202575%1,662
August 202575.2%1,761
July 202575.9%1,790
June 202574.1%1,732
May 202573.3%1,863
April 202570.8%1,915
March 202571.7%2,017
February 202572.2%2,239
January 202570.3%2,496
December 202469.3%2,591
November 202468.3%2,601
October 202465.6%2,479
September 202460.5%2,453
August 202459.6%2,599
July 202460.7%2,693
June 202460.1%2,706
May 202461.5%2,723
April 202461.6%2,966
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
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust1.5 mi9,60954%-23.8 pp
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2.8 mi3,44974%-4.5 pp
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust3.7 mi3,21564%-13.6 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust4.1 mi2,58059%-19.4 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust4.8 mi5,15061%-16.7 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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