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Bolton NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 37,808 people were on the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RMC

People waiting (all services)
37,808
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.0%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
444
Services reported
17
with people currently waiting

444 people (1.2%, roughly 1 in 83) 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 Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology5,05174%73.8%24+2.2 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)4,43852%59.0%104+4.8 pp
General surgery4,15466%63.0%12+2.5 pp
Gynaecology3,34548%61.0%78-5 pp
Cardiology3,21447%68.2%160 pp
Urology2,72260%65.0%31-4.1 pp
Dermatology2,68072%69.0%0+26.9 pp
Oral surgery2,39251%55.0%63+1.8 pp
Orthopaedics2,27552%60.6%30-6.8 pp
Gastroenterology1,53578%69.3%1-2.1 pp
Respiratory medicine89677%74.8%12+13.3 pp
Plastic surgery72043%59.3%54+3.8 pp
Rheumatology61484%70.8%0-12.7 pp
Elderly medicine43185%83.1%0+0.5 pp
Neurology17142%61.7%2-13 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery5630%72.8%0-29.6 pp
General medicine2190%71.4%0+2 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.8 percentage points (57% to 61%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (62.1% in March 2026); up 3.6 points over 6 months (57.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.8 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 202557.2%
August 202558%
September 202559.1%
October 202559.1%
November 202558.6%
December 202557.4%
January 202657.5%
February 202659.8%
March 202662.1%
April 202660.8%
May 202660.7%
June 202661%

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 Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202537,56557.2%1,230
August 202537,52158.0%1,153
September 202537,55559.1%1,097
October 202537,36659.1%1,057
November 202537,47858.6%1,103
December 202537,53257.4%910
January 202638,83657.5%696
February 202637,36959.8%543
March 202637,84962.1%374
April 202636,77960.8%440
May 202637,29460.7%395
June 202637,80861.0%444

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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