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Gynaecology waiting times at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,923 people were on the Gynaecology at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,923
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.6%
England: 61%
Over 52 weeks
97
Median wait
15 wks
Published median for this list

97 people (3.3%, roughly 1 in 30) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

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 8.9% of everyone waiting at Countess of Chester Hospital 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 4.9 percentage points (52% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (55.8% in March 2026); up 5.2 points over 6 months (51.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.9 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 202551.7%
August 202549.7%
September 202552.3%
October 202552.5%
November 202551%
December 202551.4%
January 202652%
February 202651.7%
March 202655.8%
April 202658.3%
May 202658.6%
June 202656.6%

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 Gynaecology figures at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,28251.7%127
August 20252,33649.7%126
September 20252,41752.3%114
October 20252,45152.5%129
November 20252,51551.0%121
December 20252,66251.4%141
January 20262,88252.0%189
February 20262,99151.7%231
March 20262,79855.8%109
April 20262,80858.3%120
May 20262,89858.6%97
June 20262,92356.6%97

Other NHS trusts offering gynaecology 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 Gynaecology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust13.4 mi10,38562%+5.4 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi3,04063%+6.3 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15.3 mi5,61369%+12.9 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust17.4 mi3,58265%+8.6 pp
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust18.6 mi2,29462%+5.1 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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