How long is the wait for a knee replacement at Southend Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Southend 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 Southend Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Southend Hospital.
- Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway44w · 14 mi · 33w faster
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust · Dartford58w · 20 mi · 19w faster
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone37w · 21 mi · 40w faster
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering49w · 22 mi · 28w faster
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · Colchester51w · 26 mi · 26w faster
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust · Canterbury54w · 26 mi · 23w faster
Other hospitals run by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Rochford Hospital2 mi
- Basildon Hospital10 mi
- St Peter's Hospital12 mi
- Orsett Hospital14 mi
- Chelmsford & Essex Hospital15 mi
- Mid Essex Hospital18 mi
- Queen's Hospital22 mi
- St Michael's Hospital23 mi
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