NHS waiting times · York · Trauma & Orthopaedics

How long is the wait for a rotator cuff surgery at Cross Lane Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Cross Lane Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

50weeks

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 rotator cuff surgery on its own.

Before treatment: the scan wait too

4weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 4 weeks, with 30% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Cross Lane Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Cross Lane Hospital

Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to Cross Lane Hospital.

  • South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Middlesbrough32w · 36 mi · 18w faster
  • North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust · Hartlepool31w · 43 mi · 19w faster
  • County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust · Darlington47w · 49 mi · 3w faster
  • Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust · North Yorkshire49w · 49 mi · 1w faster
  • Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust · North East Lincolnshire45w · 54 mi · 5w faster
  • South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust · Sunderland43w · 58 mi · 7w faster

Other hospitals run by York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Same trust, so the wait above applies at these too — your care could be at any of them.

  • Scarborough General Hospital1 mi
  • St Mary's Hospital1 mi
  • Bridlington and District Hospital17 mi
  • York Hospital35 mi

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