How long is the wait for a meniscus surgery at Scunthorpe General Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Scunthorpe General 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 Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust the typical MRI wait is 6 weeks, with 48% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See Scunthorpe General Hospital's full MRI queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Scunthorpe General Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Scunthorpe General Hospital.
- Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust · Wakefield44w · 34 mi · 1w faster
- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Barnsley44w · 34 mi · 1w faster
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust · Kirklees34w · 47 mi · 11w faster
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust · Bradford35w · 57 mi · 10w faster
- Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust · Tameside33w · 58 mi · 12w faster
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust · Stockport41w · 62 mi · 4w faster
Other hospitals run by Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.
- Goole & District Hospital12 mi
- Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital24 mi
See every NHS trust ranked by meniscus surgery wait →
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