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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,131 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (85%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
1,131
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
84.8%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
2
Median wait
7 wks
Published median for this list

2 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10 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 3.5% 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 14.8 percentage points (70% to 85%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5.2 points over 3 months (79.6% in March 2026); up 15.4 points over 6 months (69.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +14.8 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 202570%
August 202570.2%
September 202571.5%
October 202570.4%
November 202569.9%
December 202569.4%
January 202666.7%
February 202672.6%
March 202679.6%
April 202682.8%
May 202684%
June 202684.8%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,13370.0%11
August 20251,03770.2%10
September 202596171.5%8
October 202592170.4%6
November 202596969.9%11
December 202595669.4%7
January 202690066.7%6
February 202692372.6%3
March 202692179.6%0
April 20261,00382.8%0
May 20261,05684.0%0
June 20261,13184.8%2

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory medicine 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi3,90457%-27.4 pp
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14 mi59493%+8.1 pp
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi1,22984%-1.1 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15.3 mi1,30084%-1.2 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust17.4 mi1,09272%-12.8 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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