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Respiratory medicine waiting times at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 690 people were on the Respiratory medicine at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and more than 9 in 10 people (97%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
690
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
96.7%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
4 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 21.9 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 1.5% of everyone waiting at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 7.4 percentage points (89% to 97%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (95.6% in March 2026); up 6.9 points over 6 months (89.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.4 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 202589.3%
August 202589.7%
September 202591.9%
October 202593%
November 202589.8%
December 202589.8%
January 202692.4%
February 202693.1%
March 202695.6%
April 202696.9%
May 202696.6%
June 202696.7%

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 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202586089.3%0
August 202579889.7%0
September 202572091.9%0
October 202575793.0%0
November 202574689.8%0
December 202574889.8%0
January 202681292.4%0
February 202693793.1%0
March 202673395.6%0
April 202676396.9%0
May 202673096.6%0
June 202669096.7%0

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
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi89677%-19.2 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14 mi1,95268%-28.7 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust18.1 mi1,03389%-7.4 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi3,04693%-3.5 pp
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust23.3 mi64662%-34.6 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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