NHS waiting times · Trauma & Orthopaedics

Knee replacement waiting times by NHS trust

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

This is the wait for the whole Trauma & Orthopaedics specialty, not for knee replacement on its own — the NHS does not publish a wait for a single procedure. Each figure is how long 8 in 10 patients wait, from GP referral to the start of treatment, read from that trust's own most recent data.

Trust	Location	Typical wait
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust	Warwick	24 weeks
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	Nuneaton and Bedworth	29 weeks
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust	Bristol, City of	31 weeks
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Camden	31 weeks
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust	Hartlepool	31 weeks
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Middlesbrough	32 weeks
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	Tameside	33 weeks
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	Kirklees	34 weeks
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Birmingham	34 weeks
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust	Stoke-on-Trent	35 weeks
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust	Bradford	35 weeks
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	North Tyneside	36 weeks
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	Maidstone	37 weeks
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Knowsley	37 weeks
Whittington Health NHS Trust	Islington	37 weeks
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust	Harrow	38 weeks
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust	Bath and North East Somerset	38 weeks
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Wigan	38 weeks
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Great Yarmouth	38 weeks
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Milton Keynes	38 weeks
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	Birmingham	38 weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	Wiltshire	41 weeks
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	Stockport	41 weeks
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust	Croydon	41 weeks
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	West Northamptonshire	41 weeks
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	Sutton	41 weeks
North Bristol NHS Trust	Bristol, City of	41 weeks
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust	Dudley	42 weeks
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Cheshire West and Chester	42 weeks
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	Reigate and Banstead	42 weeks
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Ashfield	42 weeks
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	North Northamptonshire	43 weeks
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust	Wolverhampton	43 weeks
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Wirral	43 weeks
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	Sunderland	43 weeks
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust	Wakefield	44 weeks
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	Hastings	44 weeks
Medway NHS Foundation Trust	Medway	44 weeks
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Barnsley	44 weeks
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust	North East Lincolnshire	45 weeks
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cambridge	45 weeks
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Newcastle upon Tyne	46 weeks
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Hillingdon	46 weeks
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust	Walsall	46 weeks
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Lincoln	46 weeks
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	Lambeth	46 weeks
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Blackpool	47 weeks
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust	Bolton	47 weeks
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Wandsworth	47 weeks
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	Darlington	47 weeks
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	Gateshead	47 weeks
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust	West Suffolk	47 weeks
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Liverpool	47 weeks
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Basingstoke and Deane	48 weeks
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	Shropshire	48 weeks
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Preston	48 weeks
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	Cumberland	49 weeks
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	Westminster	49 weeks
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Shropshire	49 weeks
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust	Kingston upon Thames	49 weeks
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cheltenham	49 weeks
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust	Havering	49 weeks
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	North Yorkshire	49 weeks
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	Sandwell	49 weeks
East Cheshire NHS Trust	Cheshire East	49 weeks
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Lambeth	49 weeks
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	York	50 weeks
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust	Plymouth	50 weeks
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	Manchester	50 weeks
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Bradford	50 weeks
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust	Peterborough	50 weeks
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	Blackburn with Darwen	51 weeks
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust	Colchester	51 weeks
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	Harlow	51 weeks
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust	Buckinghamshire	51 weeks
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust	Westmorland and Furness	51 weeks
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust	Portsmouth	51 weeks
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust	Warrington	51 weeks
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	Cornwall	52 weeks
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust	Brent	52 weeks
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	Coventry	52 weeks
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	Hackney	52 weeks
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Swindon	52 weeks
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Watford	52 weeks
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Kensington and Chelsea	52 weeks
Wye Valley NHS Trust	Herefordshire, County of	52 weeks
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	Camden	53 weeks
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Leeds	53 weeks
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Runnymede	53 weeks
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust	Worthing	53 weeks
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust	Canterbury	54 weeks
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	54 weeks
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Kingston upon Hull, City of	54 weeks
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust	Salford	54 weeks
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	Rotherham	54 weeks
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust	Southampton	55 weeks
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust	Surrey Heath	55 weeks
Barts Health NHS Trust	Tower Hamlets	55 weeks
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Chesterfield	55 weeks
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Oxford	55 weeks
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust	Derby	55 weeks
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust	Stevenage	55 weeks
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust	Guildford	56 weeks
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	Exeter	56 weeks
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	57 weeks
Isle of Wight NHS Trust	Isle of Wight	57 weeks
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	Worcester	58 weeks
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Dorset	58 weeks
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	Dartford	58 weeks
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust	Somerset	59 weeks
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Luton	60 weeks
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	Leicester	61 weeks
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust	Lewisham	61 weeks
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Doncaster	65 weeks
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	South Norfolk	68 weeks
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust	Southend-on-Sea	77 weeks
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	Nottingham	103 weeks

117 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for June 2026. We show only acute trusts with a confident sample size, so a small-volume or community service can't distort the ranking. 2 trusts were set aside for too few patients to be reliable. 1 trust whose caseload is almost entirely day-case was set aside, having no readable signal for a major operation.

Larger trusts run several hospitals, sometimes miles apart. The NHS publishes one wait for the whole trust, not a separate figure per hospital, so the location shown is the trust's main registered site — your care could be at another of its hospitals.

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