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Cardiology waiting times at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,214 people were on the Cardiology at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (47%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
3,214
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
46.6%
England: 68.2%
Over 52 weeks
16
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

16 people (0.5%, roughly 1 in 200) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 21.6 percentage points behind 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 8.5% of everyone waiting at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.4 percentage points (43% to 47%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2 points over 3 months (48.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (46.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.4 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 202543.2%
August 202545.8%
September 202547.8%
October 202549.3%
November 202548.7%
December 202546.6%
January 202646.6%
February 202646.6%
March 202648.6%
April 202648%
May 202647.9%
June 202646.6%

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 Cardiology figures at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,15443.2%149
August 20253,20545.8%118
September 20253,28447.8%174
October 20253,28749.3%172
November 20253,29948.7%219
December 20253,06946.6%122
January 20263,14546.6%68
February 20263,05946.6%61
March 20263,11048.6%32
April 20263,13248.0%16
May 20263,16447.9%15
June 20263,21446.6%16

Other NHS trusts offering cardiology 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 Cardiology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi5,12868%+21.5 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi2,97063%+16.5 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi8,41362%+14.9 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust12.6 mi2,05588%+41.6 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi1,78574%+27.2 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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