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Rotator cuff surgery waiting times by NHS trust

Updated June 2026 · (Referral to Treatment — the NHS wait-time framework)

This is the wait for the whole Trauma & Orthopaedics specialty, not for rotator cuff surgery on its own — the NHS does not publish a wait for a single procedure. Each figure is the median wait from GP referral to the start of treatment — half of patients are seen sooner, half wait longer, read from that trust's own most recent data.

TrustLocationTypical wait
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustReading4 weeks
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustWarwick14 weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustWiltshire15 weeks
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMiddlesbrough15 weeks
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS TrustStoke-on-Trent16 weeks
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCamden17 weeks
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustHartlepool17 weeks
Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustWalsall17 weeks
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool18 weeks
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustPlymouth18 weeks
George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustNuneaton and Bedworth18 weeks
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham18 weeks
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustCheshire West and Chester18 weeks
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustKnowsley18 weeks
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWigan18 weeks
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustWakefield18 weeks
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustDudley18 weeks
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham19 weeks
Airedale NHS Foundation TrustBradford19 weeks
Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustWest Northamptonshire19 weeks
North Bristol NHS TrustBristol, City of19 weeks
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWandsworth19 weeks
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes20 weeks
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth Tyneside20 weeks
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustKirklees20 weeks
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustBath and North East Somerset21 weeks
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGreat Yarmouth21 weeks
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAshfield21 weeks
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustWirral21 weeks
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation TrustBristol, City of21 weeks
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustTameside22 weeks
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustMaidstone22 weeks
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustCornwall22 weeks
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation TrustWarrington22 weeks
Stockport NHS Foundation TrustStockport23 weeks
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS TrustHarrow23 weeks
Whittington Health NHS TrustIslington23 weeks
Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustWestminster23 weeks
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNewcastle upon Tyne24 weeks
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLambeth24 weeks
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBarnsley24 weeks
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustBuckinghamshire24 weeks
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustWolverhampton24 weeks
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustBournemouth, Christchurch and Poole24 weeks
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustGateshead25 weeks
East Cheshire NHS TrustCheshire East25 weeks
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustReigate and Banstead26 weeks
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS TrustShropshire27 weeks
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustSutton27 weeks
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustNorth Northamptonshire28 weeks
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation TrustNorth East Lincolnshire28 weeks
Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustManchester28 weeks
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBlackpool29 weeks
Wye Valley NHS TrustHerefordshire, County of29 weeks
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustKingston upon Hull, City of29 weeks
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge29 weeks
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSunderland29 weeks
East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustHastings29 weeks
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCumberland29 weeks
North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustPeterborough29 weeks
Croydon Health Services NHS TrustCroydon30 weeks
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation TrustNorth Yorkshire30 weeks
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation TrustKingston upon Thames30 weeks
Bolton NHS Foundation TrustBolton30 weeks
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston31 weeks
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustPortsmouth31 weeks
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustBlackburn with Darwen31 weeks
Barts Health NHS TrustTower Hamlets31 weeks
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustHillingdon32 weeks
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation TrustShropshire32 weeks
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustSalford32 weeks
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS TrustCoventry33 weeks
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLambeth33 weeks
West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustWest Suffolk33 weeks
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSwindon33 weeks
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKensington and Chelsea33 weeks
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustWestmorland and Furness33 weeks
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke and Deane34 weeks
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington34 weeks
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustOxford34 weeks
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLincoln34 weeks
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton35 weeks
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustWorthing35 weeks
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLeeds35 weeks
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBradford35 weeks
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation TrustDerby35 weeks
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustSandwell36 weeks
Medway NHS Foundation TrustMedway36 weeks
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustGuildford37 weeks
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustExeter37 weeks
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford37 weeks
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustRunnymede38 weeks
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustYork38 weeks
London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustBrent39 weeks
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation TrustColchester39 weeks
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield40 weeks
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow40 weeks
Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustCamden40 weeks
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation TrustDorset40 weeks
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage41 weeks
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheltenham41 weeks
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustHavering41 weeks
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustCanterbury42 weeks
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustHackney43 weeks
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustWorcester43 weeks
Somerset NHS Foundation TrustSomerset43 weeks
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation TrustSouthend-on-Sea43 weeks
Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustSurrey Heath43 weeks
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustKing's Lynn and West Norfolk44 weeks
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLuton46 weeks
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustLeicester47 weeks
The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustRotherham48 weeks
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS TrustLewisham50 weeks
Isle of Wight NHS TrustIsle of Wight52 weeks
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSouth Norfolk54 weeks
Dartford and Gravesham NHS TrustDartford54 weeks
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNottingham60 weeks
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDoncaster60 weeks

118 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for June 2026. We show only acute trusts with a confident sample size, so a small-volume or community service can't distort the ranking. 2 trusts were set aside for too few patients to be reliable.

Larger trusts run several hospitals, sometimes miles apart. The NHS publishes one wait for the whole trust, not a separate figure per hospital, so the location shown is the trust's main registered site — your care could be at another of its hospitals.

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