How long is the wait for a knee replacement at Kent & Canterbury Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Kent & Canterbury Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.
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 Kent & Canterbury Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Kent & Canterbury Hospital.
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway44w · 25 mi · 10w faster
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone37w · 26 mi · 17w faster
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · Hastings44w · 35 mi · 10w faster
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering49w · 44 mi · 5w faster
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Colchester51w · 45 mi · 3w faster
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust · Croydon41w · 52 mi · 13w faster
Other hospitals run by East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- William Harvey Hospital11 mi
- One Ashford Hospital11 mi
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital15 mi
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