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East Cheshire NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 15,700 people were on the East Cheshire NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RJN

People waiting (all services)
15,700
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.7%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
284
Services reported
12
with people currently waiting

284 people (1.8%, roughly 1 in 56) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at East Cheshire NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology2,35464%72.2%24+8.2 pp
Gynaecology2,32256%59.6%95-3.2 pp
Orthopaedics1,57161%60.9%33+6.5 pp
Gastroenterology1,49952%69.7%53+5.6 pp
Cardiology1,43151%67.9%12+2.8 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)1,36562%56.8%8-6.3 pp
General surgery1,27064%63.2%18+15.4 pp
Urology1,19564%64.8%25-1.8 pp
Respiratory medicine75771%74.1%7+18.1 pp
Elderly medicine7080%84.3%0+17.1 pp
Plastic surgery3197%59.4%0+1.9 pp
General medicine580%72.3%0+21.7 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at East Cheshire NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (60% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.1 points over 3 months (59.6% in May 2026); up 3.6 points over 6 months (58.1% in February 2026); up 2.6 points over 12 months (59.1% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance broadly stable · +2 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202559.7%
August 202559.1%
September 202556.5%
October 202556.7%
November 202551.2%
December 202546.1%
January 202650.1%
February 202658.1%
March 202660.1%
April 202658.9%
May 202659.6%
June 202660.6%
July 202662.4%
August 202661.7%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for East Cheshire NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202516,97959.7%383
August 202518,24859.1%435
September 202519,34156.5%609
October 202520,78956.7%655
November 202519,42051.2%652
December 202519,16746.1%675
January 202619,80550.1%556
February 202619,45958.1%543
March 202616,26960.1%343
April 202616,88458.9%412
May 202617,03359.6%415
June 202617,18260.6%414
July 202616,48962.4%304
August 202615,70061.7%284

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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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