How long is the wait for a meniscus surgery at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Chelsea & Westminster 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 meniscus surgery on its own.
Before treatment: the scan wait too
An MRI scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust the typical MRI wait is 3 weeks, with 8% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Chelsea & Westminster Hospital's full MRI queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust · Westminster49w · 2 mi · 3w faster
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Camden31w · 3 mi · 21w faster
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Lambeth46w · 3 mi · 6w faster
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Wandsworth47w · 4 mi · 5w faster
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Lambeth49w · 4 mi · 3w faster
- Whittington Health NHS Trust · Islington37w · 6 mi · 15w faster
Other hospitals run by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- West Middlesex University Hospital6 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by meniscus surgery wait →
Your own hospital, your own wait
A free plan maps all four routes for your exact hospital and condition: your real wait, the targeted private steps that save the most time, and honest end-to-end costs.
Map my options — free →