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Gynaecology waiting times at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,755 people were on the Gynaecology at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,755
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.5%
England: 59.6%
Over 52 weeks
84
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

84 people (3.0%, roughly 1 in 33) 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 8.6% of everyone waiting at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Gynaecology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Gynaecology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 61.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 49.7% 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
61.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
58.6% then · change to latest +2.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
51.7% then · change to latest +9.8 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
49.7% then · change to latest +11.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
57.9% then · change to latest +3.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202661.5%2,755
July 202658.5%2,755
June 202656.6%2,923
May 202658.6%2,898
April 202658.3%2,808
March 202655.8%2,798
February 202651.7%2,991
January 202652%2,882
December 202551.4%2,662
November 202551%2,515
October 202552.5%2,451
September 202552.3%2,417
August 202549.7%2,336
July 202551.7%2,282
June 202549%2,183
May 202548.5%2,153
April 202547.8%2,289
March 202550.7%2,352
February 202550.9%2,269
January 202550.4%2,240
December 202443.9%2,417
November 202441.7%2,539
October 202442.9%2,605
September 202442%2,703
August 202444.4%2,903
July 202450.3%2,978
June 202454.1%2,952
May 202456.9%2,866
April 202457.9%2,805
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 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 mi9,77159%-2.1 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi3,07862%+0.2 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15.3 mi6,26969%+7.1 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust17.4 mi3,86763%+1.2 pp
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust18.6 mi2,51860%-1.6 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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