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Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 32,730 people were on the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RJR

People waiting (all services)
32,730
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
67.5%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
237
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

237 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) 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 Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology3,46766%73.8%8+9.5 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)2,98370%59.0%18+33.4 pp
Gynaecology2,92357%61.0%97+5.1 pp
Dermatology2,49374%69.0%3+17.9 pp
Orthopaedics2,41763%60.6%2-1.3 pp
Oral surgery2,23745%55.0%28-1.4 pp
Urology1,31371%65.0%0+14.1 pp
Respiratory medicine1,13185%74.8%2+15.4 pp
General surgery1,04868%63.0%6+11.2 pp
Plastic surgery96372%59.3%11+22.5 pp
Cardiology87587%68.2%2+29.6 pp
Gastroenterology85089%69.3%0+18.9 pp
Rheumatology49795%70.8%0+36.3 pp
Elderly medicine21190%83.1%0+20.6 pp
General medicine6594%71.4%0+5 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 16.8 percentage points (51% to 68%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.3 points over 3 months (64.2% in March 2026); up 13.7 points over 6 months (53.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +16.8 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 202550.7%
August 202548.8%
September 202551.7%
October 202552.3%
November 202553.1%
December 202553.8%
January 202655.2%
February 202658.6%
March 202664.2%
April 202666%
May 202666.6%
June 202667.5%

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 Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202538,53650.7%3,267
August 202538,05648.8%3,366
September 202537,57151.7%2,811
October 202536,72652.3%2,560
November 202535,07253.1%2,038
December 202533,92153.8%1,468
January 202632,99755.2%1,182
February 202632,83858.6%1,062
March 202630,60364.2%272
April 202631,89266.0%263
May 202632,25566.6%219
June 202632,73067.5%237

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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