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

At the end of August 2026, 1,020 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
1,020
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.8%
England: 74.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in August 2026.

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 3.2% of everyone waiting at Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Respiratory medicine at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 78.8% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 70.2% 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
78.8%
3 months earlier · May 2026
84% then · change to latest -5.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
72.6% then · change to latest +6.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
70.2% then · change to latest +8.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
61.1% then · change to latest +17.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202678.8%1,020
July 202683.7%1,044
June 202684.8%1,131
May 202684%1,056
April 202682.8%1,003
March 202679.6%921
February 202672.6%923
January 202666.7%900
December 202569.4%956
November 202569.9%969
October 202570.4%921
September 202571.5%961
August 202570.2%1,037
July 202570%1,133
June 202571.9%1,224
May 202571.9%1,269
April 202572.5%1,281
March 202574.3%1,257
February 202571.3%1,281
January 202572.4%1,397
December 202469%1,476
November 202467.5%1,436
October 202464%1,526
September 202466.3%1,555
August 202467.9%1,558
July 202468.6%1,473
June 202465%1,362
May 202460.4%1,362
April 202461.1%1,335
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 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 mi3,00860%-19.3 pp
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14 mi54594%+15.5 pp
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi1,21485%+6.6 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15.3 mi1,15581%+2.3 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust17.4 mi1,00575%-3.6 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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