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Dermatology waiting times at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,212 people were on the Dermatology at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (65%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
3,212
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.2%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
9
Median wait
11 wks
Published median for this list

9 people (0.3%, roughly 1 in 333) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 7.8% of everyone waiting at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Dermatology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Dermatology at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 65.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 92.4% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
65.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
65.6% then · change to latest -0.4 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
70.8% then · change to latest -5.6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
92.4% then · change to latest -27.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
99.1% then · change to latest -33.9 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202665.2%3,212
July 202664.6%3,134
June 202665.9%3,159
May 202665.6%3,171
April 202666.7%3,056
March 202669.9%2,889
February 202670.8%2,901
January 202674.1%2,795
December 202575.2%2,811
November 202578.6%2,950
October 202583.1%2,906
September 202588.9%2,650
August 202592.4%2,499
July 202594.8%2,165
June 202597.6%1,563
May 202597.3%1,251
April 202598.2%1,129
March 202598.8%1,032
February 202598.5%908
January 202597.8%894
December 202497.8%817
November 202497.5%1,013
October 202498.2%1,092
September 202497.8%1,200
August 202498.7%1,183
July 202498.4%1,338
June 202498.6%1,457
May 202499.1%1,418
April 202499.1%1,325
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering dermatology within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Dermatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust12.8 mi2,16168%+2.8 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust23.4 mi2,38561%-3.9 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust24.1 mi3,09562%-3.7 pp

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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