How long is the wait for a knee replacement at St Helens Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs St Helens 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 St Helens Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to St Helens Hospital.
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside33w · 27 mi · 4w faster
- University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust · Stoke-on-Trent35w · 37 mi · 2w faster
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · Kirklees34w · 40 mi · 3w faster
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford35w · 44 mi · 2w faster
- The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Birmingham34w · 77 mi · 3w faster
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · Nuneaton and Bedworth29w · 82 mi · 8w faster
Other hospitals run by Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Whiston Hospital3 mi
- Ormskirk and District General Hospital11 mi
- Southport and Formby District General Hospital17 mi
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