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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 40,413 people were on the Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (59%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RXL

People waiting (all services)
40,413
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.2%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
1,101
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

1,101 people (2.7%, roughly 1 in 37) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Cardiology5,29852%68.2%263+1.9 pp
Gastroenterology3,69258%69.3%134+5.5 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,26467%59.0%25+10 pp
Gynaecology3,17448%61.0%373+1.4 pp
Dermatology3,15966%69.0%0-9.3 pp
Ophthalmology3,12165%73.8%42+15.5 pp
Orthopaedics2,98659%60.6%25+3.1 pp
Urology2,39749%65.0%82-7.3 pp
Oral surgery2,07645%55.0%21-3.1 pp
General surgery1,20756%63.0%7+2.6 pp
Respiratory medicine1,12059%74.8%22+4.7 pp
Rheumatology1,06768%70.8%0+0.8 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery93850%72.8%95+2.1 pp
Plastic surgery23573%59.3%0+14.4 pp
Elderly medicine6492%83.1%0-4 pp
General medicine10%71.4%0-98.5 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 2.9 percentage points (56% to 59%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.3 points over 3 months (61.5% in March 2026); up 2.9 points over 6 months (56.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +2.9 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202556.3%
August 202555.4%
September 202556%
October 202555.1%
November 202555.1%
December 202556.3%
January 202657.2%
February 202657.2%
March 202661.5%
April 202660.5%
May 202659.5%
June 202659.2%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202540,52256.3%1,905
August 202542,61055.4%2,010
September 202542,63756.0%1,840
October 202543,53655.1%1,557
November 202543,29855.1%1,235
December 202542,52156.3%1,020
January 202642,25957.2%1,011
February 202642,96457.2%977
March 202640,28461.5%851
April 202640,35360.5%954
May 202641,04559.5%1,081
June 202640,41359.2%1,101

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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