Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
Updated August 2026
The typical wait to see an orthopaedic consultant is
15 weeks
That's 3½ months
The NHS Trauma & Orthopaedics waiting list at Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust currently has 6,095 patients waiting, with a typical wait of around 15 weeks from GP referral. About 6 in 10 Trauma & Orthopaedics patients here are seen within 18 weeks (the NHS constitutional target is 9 in 10). 28 have been waiting over a year. Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust is an NHS Trust in the Midlands region. Waits at this hospital are about 0.6 week shorter than in August 2025. It's moved up 7 places in the national league for this department's; now 221 out of 303 hospitals.
Median wait for this department, with the national average as a dashed line.
Distribution of patients by how many weeks they've been on the waiting list.
The national average wait to see an orthopaedic consultant is about 13 weeks. This hospital is slower than the national average.
Ranked 221st out of 303 hospitals nationally for this department
Ranked 45th out of 56 in Midlands
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Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust currently has about 6,095 patients on its Trauma & Orthopaedics waiting list. The typical wait from GP referral to first appointment is around 15 weeks.
About 59% of Trauma & Orthopaedics patients at Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust are currently seen within 18 weeks of GP referral. The NHS constitutional target is 92%.
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