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Dermatology waiting times at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,581 people were on the Dermatology at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (76%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
2,581
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
76.0%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

3 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7 percentage points better than 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 8.1% of everyone waiting at Countess of Chester Hospital 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: 76% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 42.8% 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
76%
3 months earlier · May 2026
72.2% then · change to latest +3.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
58.8% then · change to latest +17.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
42.8% then · change to latest +33.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
55.3% then · change to latest +20.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202676%2,581
July 202678.1%2,374
June 202674.1%2,493
May 202672.2%2,413
April 202668.2%2,456
March 202663.8%2,399
February 202658.8%2,613
January 202655.5%2,472
December 202556.3%2,512
November 202552.9%2,588
October 202550.5%2,981
September 202548.2%3,063
August 202542.8%3,473
July 202546.2%3,588
June 202545.7%3,564
May 202541.2%3,220
April 202537.8%3,284
March 202537.8%3,124
February 202541.3%3,028
January 202543%2,875
December 202444.3%2,751
November 202447.9%2,850
October 202449.9%2,810
September 202448.3%2,631
August 202448.6%2,471
July 202453.2%2,477
June 202452.8%2,272
May 202453.4%2,191
April 202455.3%2,068
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
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi3,20161%-14.7 pp
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi4,30066%-10.5 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15.3 mi8,20855%-20.7 pp
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust18.6 mi4,23985%+8.5 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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