FOI 7421 - Knee Surgery Data
Date: 04 July 2022 to 04 July 2025
- Does you hospital undertake knee replacements on the NHS?
- If so, what is the average waiting time between referral and surgery?
- Can you please confirm whether knee replacement surgeries were undertaken during 2020?
- If they were, was there a reduction in the number of surgeries? How long was the average waiting time?
- If surgeries were not undertaken during 2020, when did they resume and what was the average waiting time?
- Does your hospital have a policy regarding minimum age for knee replacements on the NHS?
- If so? What is the minimum age?
- Are there any other factors or criteria that may prevent a patient getting a knee replacement on the NHS?
- Does the NHS provide after care following the surgery such as physiotherapy?
- Request ID:7421
- Category:Trust - Service Data
- Response:
July 2022
- Does you hospital undertake knee replacements on the NHS? Yes
- If so, what is the average waiting time between referral and surgery? The current average wait time between referral and surgery for a knee replacement is 247 days.
- Can you please confirm whether knee replacement surgeries were undertaken during 2020? Yes
- If they were, was there a reduction in the number of surgeries? Yes How long was the average waiting time? Please see below
- 2018: Number of knee replacement surgeries: 195. Average Wait (from referral to surgery): 212
- 2019: Number of knee replacement surgeries: 238. Average Wait (from referral to surgery): 187
- 2020: Number of knee replacement surgeries: 101. Average Wait (from referral to surgery): 192
- If surgeries were not undertaken during 2020, when did they resume and what was the average waiting time? N/A
- Does your hospital have a policy regarding minimum age for knee replacements on the NHS? No
- If so? What is the minimum age? N/A
- Are there any other factors or criteria that may prevent a patient getting a knee replacement on the NHS? No
- Does the NHS provide after care following the surgery such as physiotherapy? Yes