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Elderly medicine waiting times at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 431 people were on the Elderly medicine at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (85%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
431
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
85.4%
England: 83.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
8 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 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 1.1% 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 worsened by 4.3 percentage points (90% to 85%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (84.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (84.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4.3 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 202589.7%
August 202589.7%
September 202590.1%
October 202589.4%
November 202586%
December 202584.9%
January 202685.8%
February 202683.5%
March 202684.1%
April 202682.1%
May 202684.9%
June 202685.4%

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 Elderly medicine figures at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202532989.7%0
August 202535989.7%0
September 202533390.1%0
October 202533189.4%0
November 202534986.0%0
December 202537884.9%0
January 202640185.8%0
February 202640183.5%0
March 202634684.1%0
April 202630182.1%0
May 202637184.9%0
June 202643185.4%0

Other NHS trusts offering elderly medicine 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 Elderly medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi21493%+8.1 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi32967%-18.2 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi65761%-24.5 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust12.6 mi73100%+14.6 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi38562%-23.3 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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