How long is the wait for a meniscus surgery at St George's Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs St George's 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 St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical MRI wait is 2 weeks, with 3% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See St George's Hospital's full MRI queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of St George's Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to St George's Hospital.
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust · Sutton41w · 3 mi · 6w faster
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust · Croydon41w · 4 mi · 6w faster
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust · Lambeth46w · 5 mi · 1w faster
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Camden31w · 7 mi · 16w faster
- Whittington Health NHS Trust · Islington37w · 10 mi · 10w faster
- Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · Reigate and Banstead42w · 14 mi · 5w faster
See every NHS trust ranked by meniscus surgery wait →
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