How long is the wait for a rotator cuff surgery at The Whittington Hospital?
The NHS does not publish waiting times for individual hospitals. This figure is for Whittington Health NHS Trust, which runs The Whittington 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 rotator cuff surgery on its own.
Before treatment: the scan wait too
An ultrasound scan is a separate NHS queue from the treatment wait above, and it comes first. At Whittington Health NHS Trust the typical ultrasound wait is 3 weeks, with 1% waiting over six weeks (June 2026).
See The Whittington Hospital's full ultrasound queue and faster scan alternatives →
Faster hospitals within 100 miles of The Whittington Hospital
Distances are straight-line from this hospital's own location, so this list is specific to The Whittington Hospital.
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Camden31w · 3 mi · 6w faster
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust · Maidstone37w · 34 mi
- South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust · Warwick24w · 79 mi · 13w faster
- George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust · Nuneaton and Bedworth29w · 87 mi · 8w faster
- The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · Birmingham34w · 97 mi · 3w faster
See every NHS trust ranked by rotator cuff surgery wait →
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