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Plastic surgery waiting times at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 235 people were on the Plastic surgery at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (73%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
235
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
72.8%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 13.5 percentage points better than the England figure 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 0.6% of everyone waiting at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 13.7 percentage points (87% to 73%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 9.5 points over 3 months (82.3% in March 2026); up 14.5 points over 6 months (58.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -13.7 points

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

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202586.5%
August 202593.5%
September 202580.6%
October 202552.5%
November 202557%
December 202558.3%
January 202655.4%
February 202674.3%
March 202682.3%
April 202675.1%
May 202676.5%
June 202672.8%

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 Plastic surgery figures at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202513386.5%0
August 202515593.5%0
September 202513480.6%0
October 202516052.5%0
November 202518657.0%0
December 202519258.3%0
January 202622455.4%0
February 202618774.3%0
March 202622082.3%0
April 202620575.1%0
May 202622676.5%0
June 202623572.8%0

Other NHS trusts offering plastic surgery 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 Plastic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust12.8 mi4,22955%-18.1 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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