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Meniscus surgery  ·  Southampton ·  Trauma and orthopaedics

Meniscus surgery waiting time at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust does not report its trauma and orthopaedics waiting times to NHS England. There is no published figure for this trust, so we do not show one. We check every month, and this page will fill in as soon as the trust starts reporting.

NHS RTT data, August 2026

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About meniscus tear

The menisci are two C-shaped pads of cartilage inside the knee that act as shock absorbers. A tear can happen suddenly, often from twisting the knee, or develop gradually through wear with age.

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More about Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

How long people have been waiting

3,043
616
0 to 18 weeks
Over 18 weeks
People on the trauma and orthopaedics waiting list now, split by whether they have passed the 18-week target, August 2026. Whole specialty.

Before treatment: the MRI queue

An MRI scan is one of the scans often used before treatment, and it is a separate NHS queue. At Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust the typical MRI wait is 2 weeks, with 1% waiting over six weeks (August 2026).

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NHS hospitals near Southampton

Royal South Hants Hospital (current)
0 mi
n/a
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust · Southampton
2 mi
30 weeks
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust · Portsmouth
15 mi
25 weeks
Isle of Wight NHS Trust · Isle of Wight
15 mi
49 weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust · Wiltshire
19 mi
21 weeks
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
28 mi
23 weeks
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Basingstoke and Deane
28 mi
33 weeks
Weeks waited by patients treated in August 2026, whole specialty, straight-line from this hospital. Switching does not guarantee a shorter wait.

How we know this

NHS RTT data, August 2026.
Trauma and orthopaedics as a whole, not meniscus surgery alone.
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