NHS waiting times · Exeter · Trauma & Orthopaedics

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

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Honiton Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

56weeks

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

3weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 30% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

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

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Honiton Hospital

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

  • University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust · Plymouth50w · 48 mi · 6w faster
  • University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust · Bristol, City of31w · 53 mi · 25w faster
  • University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole54w · 53 mi · 2w faster
  • Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust · Bath and North East Somerset38w · 54 mi · 18w faster
  • North Bristol NHS Trust · Bristol, City of41w · 55 mi · 15w faster
  • Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust · Wiltshire41w · 63 mi · 15w faster

Other hospitals run by Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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

  • Axminster Hospital8 mi
  • Victoria Hospital8 mi
  • Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital15 mi
  • Heavitree Hospital15 mi
  • Exmouth Hospital15 mi
  • Tiverton and District Hospital16 mi
  • North Devon District Hospital43 mi

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