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East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 46,343 people were on the East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (72%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RXR

People waiting (all services)
46,343
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
72.1%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
171
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

171 people (0.4%, roughly 1 in 250) 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 Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Gynaecology7,27860%59.6%143+3.6 pp
Orthopaedics6,58378%60.9%7+2.2 pp
Ophthalmology4,34067%72.2%4+4.1 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,54579%56.8%0+2.6 pp
Oral surgery3,53763%53.8%10+15.6 pp
General surgery3,14564%63.2%0+5.5 pp
Dermatology2,38561%69.0%0+14.6 pp
Urology1,99281%64.8%0+1.1 pp
Gastroenterology1,93192%69.7%0+36.2 pp
Cardiology1,86291%67.9%0+18.4 pp
Rheumatology84267%70.4%0-0.6 pp
Respiratory medicine64097%74.1%0+4.3 pp
Elderly medicine85100%84.3%0+1 pp
General medicine580%72.3%0+5 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 10.9 percentage points (61% to 72%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (71.1% in May 2026); up 7.3 points over 6 months (64.8% in February 2026); up 12 points over 12 months (60.1% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +10.9 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 202561.2%
August 202560.1%
September 202560.4%
October 202559.7%
November 202560.7%
December 202562.4%
January 202663.7%
February 202664.8%
March 202670%
April 202670.6%
May 202671.1%
June 202672%
July 202672.1%
August 202672.1%

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 Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202557,37161.2%2,100
August 202557,21760.1%2,083
September 202555,62960.4%1,977
October 202554,30159.7%1,795
November 202552,32260.7%1,186
December 202552,68062.4%822
January 202651,48463.7%676
February 202650,33964.8%605
March 202647,72370.0%329
April 202647,35470.6%309
May 202646,71471.1%264
June 202647,17872.0%224
July 202647,03172.1%223
August 202646,34372.1%171

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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