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Dermatology waiting times at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,226 people were on the Dermatology at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
3,226
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.8%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
9
Median wait
14 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 8.1 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 8.7% of everyone waiting at Bolton 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 improved

Published 18-week performance for Dermatology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 60.8% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 49.3% 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
60.8%
3 months earlier · May 2026
74.5% then · change to latest -13.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
63.8% then · change to latest -3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
49.3% then · change to latest +11.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
56.8% then · change to latest +4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202660.8%3,226
July 202667.3%2,993
June 202671.5%2,680
May 202674.5%2,413
April 202678.4%2,291
March 202672.6%2,069
February 202663.8%2,050
January 202644.7%3,771
December 202544.7%3,656
November 202545.9%3,540
October 202547.7%3,524
September 202548.1%3,618
August 202549.3%3,470
July 202548.9%3,588
June 202548.7%3,560
May 202548.3%3,359
April 202546.2%3,250
March 202548%3,091
February 202549.4%2,936
January 202550%3,018
December 202453.9%2,957
November 202456.7%2,933
October 202455.8%2,913
September 202453.5%2,734
August 202453.8%2,831
July 202457%2,701
June 202460.4%2,597
May 202460.3%2,562
April 202456.8%2,488
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
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi15,61749%-11.6 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi3,09562%+0.7 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi1,77775%+14.2 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust12.6 mi2,38561%+0.4 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi26585%+24.4 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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