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Plastic surgery waiting times at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 720 people were on the Plastic surgery at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (43%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
720
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
43.3%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
54
Median wait
23 wks
Published median for this list

54 people (7.5%, roughly 1 in 13) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 16 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 1.9% 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 6.8 percentage points (37% to 43%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5.4 points over 3 months (37.9% in March 2026); up 3.8 points over 6 months (39.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.8 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 202536.5%
August 202538.4%
September 202539%
October 202539.9%
November 202541.8%
December 202539.5%
January 202637.8%
February 202635.4%
March 202637.9%
April 202640%
May 202640.8%
June 202643.3%

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 Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202565836.5%81
August 202570838.4%100
September 202573639.0%114
October 202573139.9%117
November 202575841.8%111
December 202570439.5%77
January 202666437.8%45
February 202666335.4%48
March 202665437.9%28
April 202669840.0%46
May 202669440.8%41
June 202672043.3%54

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
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi1,27360%+16.2 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi5,26150%+7.1 pp
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust11.9 mi17599%+55.5 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust17.3 mi8,84055%+11.8 pp
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust19.9 mi4,22955%+11.3 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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