NHS waiting times · Trauma & Orthopaedics

Slipped disc treatment NHS waiting times by trust

Slipped disc treatment is done by trauma and orthopaedics, where the typical NHS wait is about 27 weeks: half of patients wait less, half longer. 1 in 5 wait longer than 49 weeks. It varies a lot by hospital.

This is the wait for the whole trauma and orthopaedics specialty, not slipped disc treatment on its own: the NHS doesn’t publish waits for single procedures.

Updated July 2026 · (Referral to Treatment: the NHS wait-time framework)

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Trust	Location	Typical wait
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust	Bath and North East Somerset	8 weeks
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Wandsworth	9 weeks
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Liverpool	9 weeks
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cheshire East	12 weeks
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust	Warwick	13 weeks
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Camden	15 weeks
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust	Westminster	15 weeks
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust	Hartlepool	16 weeks
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust	Stoke-on-Trent	16 weeks
Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust	Harrow	17 weeks
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust	Wakefield	17 weeks
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Wigan	17 weeks
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust	West Northamptonshire	17 weeks
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Knowsley	17 weeks
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust	Bolton	18 weeks
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust	Nuneaton and Bedworth	18 weeks
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust	Bradford	18 weeks
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust	Birmingham	18 weeks
The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Birmingham	18 weeks
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	North Tyneside	19 weeks
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust	Wiltshire	19 weeks
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Middlesbrough	19 weeks
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Ashfield	19 weeks
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust	Kirklees	19 weeks
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Wirral	20 weeks
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust	Buckinghamshire	20 weeks
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust	Walsall	20 weeks
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust	Maidstone	21 weeks
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Great Yarmouth	21 weeks
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Milton Keynes	21 weeks
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	Tameside	21 weeks
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust	Bristol, City of	21 weeks
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Newcastle upon Tyne	22 weeks
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust	Croydon	22 weeks
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	Reigate and Banstead	23 weeks
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust	Manchester	24 weeks
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust	Cornwall	24 weeks
Whittington Health NHS Trust	Islington	25 weeks
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust	Kingston upon Thames	25 weeks
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Bradford	25 weeks
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust	Wolverhampton	25 weeks
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Basingstoke and Deane	25 weeks
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust	Sutton	26 weeks
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cambridge	26 weeks
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust	Stockport	27 weeks
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Hillingdon	27 weeks
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust	Southampton	27 weeks
Barts Health NHS Trust	Tower Hamlets	28 weeks
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust	Hastings	28 weeks
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust	Sunderland	28 weeks
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust	Derby	28 weeks
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Kensington and Chelsea	28 weeks
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust	Gateshead	28 weeks
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust	Coventry	28 weeks
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust	Peterborough	28 weeks
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	28 weeks
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust	Lambeth	29 weeks
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust	Cumberland	29 weeks
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Kingston upon Hull, City of	29 weeks
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Lambeth	29 weeks
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust	Sandwell	29 weeks
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Barnsley	30 weeks
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Blackpool	30 weeks
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust	Dudley	30 weeks
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust	North East Lincolnshire	30 weeks
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust	Shropshire	31 weeks
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Oxford	32 weeks
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	York	32 weeks
Wye Valley NHS Trust	Herefordshire, County of	32 weeks
Medway NHS Foundation Trust	Medway	32 weeks
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Chesterfield	33 weeks
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	33 weeks
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust	Blackburn with Darwen	33 weeks
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Leeds	33 weeks
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Shropshire	33 weeks
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust	North Yorkshire	33 weeks
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust	Portsmouth	33 weeks
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	North Northamptonshire	34 weeks
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Preston	34 weeks
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Cheshire West and Chester	34 weeks
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust	Warrington	35 weeks
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Luton	35 weeks
East Cheshire NHS Trust	Cheshire East	35 weeks
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Lincoln	35 weeks
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	Exeter	36 weeks
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust	Salford	36 weeks
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust	Worthing	36 weeks
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Swindon	37 weeks
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust	Westmorland and Furness	37 weeks
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	Darlington	37 weeks
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust	West Suffolk	38 weeks
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust	Colchester	38 weeks
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust	Brent	38 weeks
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust	Watford	39 weeks
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust	Hackney	39 weeks
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust	Harlow	39 weeks
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Runnymede	40 weeks
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	Camden	40 weeks
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust	Worcester	41 weeks
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust	Canterbury	41 weeks
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust	Havering	41 weeks
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust	Surrey Heath	42 weeks
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Cheltenham	42 weeks
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust	Southend-on-Sea	42 weeks
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust	Rotherham	43 weeks
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust	Somerset	44 weeks
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust	Leicester	45 weeks
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust	Stevenage	45 weeks
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust	Lewisham	46 weeks
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust	Guildford	46 weeks
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Dorset	47 weeks
Isle of Wight NHS Trust	Isle of Wight	51 weeks
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust	Dartford	55 weeks
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	South Norfolk	57 weeks
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Doncaster	60 weeks
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	Nottingham	70 weeks

116 NHS trusts, ranked by wait, from the admitted RTT pathway for July 2026. We show only acute trusts with a confident sample size, so a small-volume or community service can't distort the ranking. 1 trust was set aside for too few patients to be reliable. 1 trust whose caseload is almost entirely day-case was set aside, having no readable signal for a major operation.

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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About slipped disc

The discs are soft cushions of tissue between the bones of the spine. A slipped disc, also called a prolapsed or herniated disc, is when one of them pushes out.