NHS waiting times · Lincoln · Trauma & Orthopaedics

How long is the wait for a knee replacement at Johnson Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Johnson Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

46weeks

Updated June 2026 · (Referral to Treatment — the NHS wait-time framework)

This is how long 8 in 10 patients wait for the whole Trauma & Orthopaedics specialty at this trust, from GP referral to the start of treatment — the NHS does not publish a wait for knee replacement on its own.

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Johnson Hospital

Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Johnson Hospital.

  • Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · North Northamptonshire43w · 37 mi · 3w faster
  • Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Cambridge45w · 45 mi · 1w faster
  • Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust · West Northamptonshire41w · 50 mi · 5w faster
  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust · North East Lincolnshire45w · 51 mi · 1w faster
  • George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · Nuneaton and Bedworth29w · 59 mi · 17w faster
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Milton Keynes38w · 59 mi · 8w faster

Other hospitals run by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.

  • Welland Hospital1 mi
  • Pilgrim Hospital14 mi
  • Grantham & District Hospital22 mi
  • Lincoln County Hospital34 mi
  • County Hospital Louth40 mi
  • John Coupland Hospital50 mi

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