Find a hospital that can treat you months sooner.
It's your legal right. It costs you nothing.
Average NHS wait for a hip replacement in England. Knee: 28.7 weeks.
Treated within 18 weeks, against the NHS Constitution's 92% standard.
Waiting for a hip or knee replacement in England right now.
Every NHS-funded hospital within two hours, ranked by waiting time. The wait you were handed is only one option among many.
A one-page letter for your GP, citing the law they need to act on. No forms to chase, no fees.
Not the same leaflet everyone gets. A plan built for your age, your strength, your home — following NICE guidance.
Recovery decides whether surgery worked. Week-by-week support, right where the help usually thins out.
Each nation runs its own waiting list and publishes its own figures. Eukarea covers all four.
Only England publishes waits per hospital. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland publish per health board or trust, so figures there are board-level. No nation publishes a hip- or knee-specific wait per hospital.
They're not secrets. They're just buried in a system too busy to explain itself.
Under the NHS Constitution (England) and Regulation 39 of the NHS Standing Rules, you have a legal right to choose any qualified hospital that holds a valid NHS contract for your treatment. If you live in Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland, you are still entitled to request a transfer to a faster facility. Your GP can action this request instantly.
Eukarea only displays independent and private providers that are integrated into the NHS e-Referral Service (e-RS). Because these hospitals hold NHS agreements, the NHS funds your treatment exactly as it would at a local trust. You pay nothing.
Hospital waiting list data is public, but it is rarely shared with patients during routine consultations. While a local trust may have a long backlog, an alternative surgical clinic less than an hour away might have a far shorter list. Eukarea simply brings this data to light.
No postcode needed. Pick a place and watch a real search run.
These are real searches on real hospitals — the same result a patient in that city would get.
Ranked by waiting time. NHS-funded and private alike.
Drawing your 2-hour radius…
Before you choose, check that any hospital or clinic is a genuine NHS-registered provider at a real address. This checks the official NHS Organisation Data Service and confirms the location — it shows official data only, never anything invented.
This confirms a provider exists, is active on the NHS register, and is at the address shown. It doesn't confirm whether they currently offer your specific treatment on e-RS — your GP confirms that at referral.
Wherever you choose to have your operation, your recovery happens at home. Eukarea was founded by a registered physiotherapist who managed hundreds of hip and knee patients — so support near home is built in, not bolted on. Every recovery plan follows NICE guideline NG157. Comparing hospitals is always free. Expert support is optional, with one honest price for a proper 45-minute consultation.
Every Eukarea recovery programme follows the same evidence-based pathway used in NHS and private orthopaedic care. Choose your procedure and tap any phase to see exactly what to expect.
Answer a few questions about your joint, your strength, your home and your health. We'll build a personalised prehab or recovery plan — tailored to your age and ability, mindful of any other conditions — for your physiotherapist to approve. You can download it as a PDF.
Build my plan →The complete Day 0–6 month programmes — the exact prehab exercises to get you stronger before surgery, then every recovery phase and progression afterwards — written by a registered physiotherapist and aligned to NICE NG157. Unlock lifetime access to both the hip and knee plans.
Unlock the full plans →The problem was never that there is no care. It is that no one shows you where.
Searching and the GP letter are free, always. Add support only if you want it.
Eukarea never takes payment from hospitals, and no provider can pay to change its ranking or its waiting time.
For the last two years, as an orthopaedic physiotherapist in a private hospital that takes NHS referrals through the e-Referral Service, I managed 583 hip and knee replacements — patients referred from the NHS and patients paying privately — through the pathway, from the day of surgery to six months post-op. I saw the same gaps open up again and again, in a process far less structured than it should be. Eukarea is what I built to close them.
The same complaints came up again and again. Eukarea is my answer to each of them.
Patients sat on a list for a year, never told that a hospital down the road could have taken them sooner — on the NHS.
Physiotherapy and occupational therapy input before surgery was thin or absent, at exactly the point where it does the most good.
NHS hip and knee pamphlets are good, but generic. A 55-year-old should not be handed the same non-individualised exercises as everyone else.
Some patients travelled hours for surgery. That distance does not end at the operation — it quietly decides how much hands-on physiotherapy they can realistically get afterwards, when they are sore, slow and dependent on a lift. Care that is far away becomes care that is not taken.
Recovery is where surgery succeeds or fails — yet support thins out exactly when the problems appear.
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No name, no email, no account. We never store who you are.
Only because they host active NHS contracts via the e-Referral Service (e-RS). Eukarea never ranks or displays a hospital simply because it is private. If a provider appears on your search list, it means the NHS can pay for your operation there. You pay nothing.
Under the NHS Constitution, your GP should not refuse your choice where the provider is clinically appropriate and holds a valid NHS contract. Our downloadable shortlist gives you the legal basis and the wording to make that conversation straightforward for your surgery staff.
Eukarea supports self-funding routes too. The same vetted hospitals also accept self-paying and insured patients, typically with the shortest waits. Your prehab and recovery tools are identical either way.
From verified national sources: NHS England RTT data, Public Health Scotland, StatsWales and Digital Health & Care Wales, and the Department of Health Northern Ireland — plus the National Joint Registry. Quality badges mirror published Care Quality Commission (CQC) ratings in England. Provider-level weeks shown are indicative around verified national averages until live per-hospital feeds are connected; always confirm with the hospital or NHS My Planned Care.
There isn't one. Eukarea is free for patients to compare hospitals and generate the GP document. We sustain it through flat subscriptions from provider networks and equipment suppliers. Nobody can pay to change their ranking or their waiting time.
Because surgery is only half the journey. Pre-assessment, follow-ups and wound reviews all mean travel. We limit the search to a 2-hour window so your recovery stays practical and close to home.
Free to compare, always. We're rolling out across all four UK nations — leave your email and we'll tell you the moment your area goes live.
One page to take to your GP. It states your legal right to choose and names your preferred hospitals.