Rotator cuff surgery · Dartford · Trauma and orthopaedics
Rotator cuff surgery waiting time at Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
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weeks
Actual referral-to-treatment wait in August 2026.
NHS RTT data, August 2026
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About rotator cuff problems
The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles and tendons that wrap around the shoulder joint. They hold the top of your arm bone in its socket and let you lift and turn your arm.
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How long people have been waiting
2,540
2,462
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 ultrasound queue
An ultrasound scan, sometimes an MRI, is often used before treatment, and it is a separate NHS queue. At Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 12% waiting over six weeks (August 2026).
See the full ultrasound queue at Darent Valley Hospital and faster scan alternativesNHS hospitals near Dartford
Darent Valley Hospital (current)
0 mi
49 weeks
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · Havering
10 mi
39 weeks
Medway NHS Foundation Trust · Medway
13 mi
31 weeks
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone
15 mi
21 weeks
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Lambeth
15 mi
29 weeks
Barts Health NHS Trust · Tower Hamlets
15 mi
32 weeks
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust · Hackney
15 mi
34 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 rotator cuff surgery alone.
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