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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 41,106 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)
41,106
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
58.6%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
1,110
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

1,110 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
Cardiology5,18653%67.9%278-1.7 pp
Gastroenterology3,74957%69.7%106+5.7 pp
Ophthalmology3,39168%72.2%36+10.3 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,36970%56.8%9+14.4 pp
Dermatology3,21265%69.0%9-5.6 pp
Orthopaedics3,02156%60.9%57+1.1 pp
Gynaecology3,01444%59.6%383-2.4 pp
Urology2,43751%64.8%104-6 pp
Oral surgery2,09844%53.8%16-4.2 pp
General surgery1,28850%63.2%14-8.1 pp
Rheumatology95669%70.4%2+3.2 pp
Respiratory medicine88168%74.1%8+10 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery87649%73.6%60+5.3 pp
Plastic surgery24774%59.4%0-0.6 pp
Elderly medicine8498%84.3%0+3.3 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (56% to 59%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (59.5% in May 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (57.2% in February 2026); up 3.2 points over 12 months (55.4% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +2.3 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 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%
July 202657.8%
August 202658.6%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

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
July 202640,79457.8%1,123
August 202641,10658.6%1,110

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.

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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What these figures cannot tell you

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  • 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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