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East Cheshire NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 17,182 people were on the East Cheshire NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RJN

People waiting (all services)
17,182
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.6%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
414
Services reported
12
with people currently waiting

414 people (2.4%, roughly 1 in 42) 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
Ophthalmology2,47866%73.8%20+16.7 pp
Gynaecology2,25457%61.0%89+11.5 pp
Gastroenterology1,90650%69.3%96+11.3 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)1,59464%59.0%22+13.2 pp
Orthopaedics1,54358%60.6%28+11.9 pp
Cardiology1,42853%68.2%22+11.9 pp
General surgery1,40758%63.0%25+13.9 pp
Urology1,21364%65.0%25+24.5 pp
Respiratory medicine1,13751%74.8%79+13.9 pp
Elderly medicine8070%83.1%1+10.9 pp
Plastic surgery3795%59.3%1+14 pp
General medicine6100%71.4%0+30.8 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at East Cheshire NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (60% to 61%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (60.1% in March 2026); up 14.5 points over 6 months (46.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.9 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 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%

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 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

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.

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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