NHS waiting times · Sandwell · Trauma & Orthopaedics

How long is the wait for a rotator cuff surgery at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital?

The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, and it is the wait that applies to you here.

49weeks

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

2weekstypical ultrasound wait · June 2026

An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 2 weeks, with 6% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).

See Midland Metropolitan University Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →

Faster hospitals within 100 miles of Midland Metropolitan University Hospital

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

  • University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · Birmingham38w · 3 mi · 11w faster
  • The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Birmingham34w · 5 mi · 15w faster
  • The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust · Dudley42w · 7 mi · 7w faster
  • Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust · Walsall46w · 7 mi · 3w faster
  • The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust · Wolverhampton43w · 10 mi · 6w faster
  • George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · Nuneaton and Bedworth29w · 20 mi · 20w faster

Other hospitals run by Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

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

  • City Hospital1 mi
  • Sandwell General Hospital3 mi
  • Rowley Regis Hospital3 mi

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