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Urology waiting times at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,992 people were on the Urology at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (81%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Urology across England

People waiting
1,992
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
81.1%
England: 64.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
7 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 16.3 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 4.3% of everyone waiting at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Urology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 81.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 76.8% 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
81.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
79.5% then · change to latest +1.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
80% then · change to latest +1.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
76.8% then · change to latest +4.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
57.5% then · change to latest +23.5 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202681.1%1,992
July 202679.4%2,007
June 202679.4%2,231
May 202679.5%2,298
April 202682.1%2,315
March 202683.6%2,225
February 202680%2,217
January 202680.4%2,206
December 202579.7%2,320
November 202579.3%2,305
October 202579.1%2,474
September 202578%2,552
August 202576.8%2,774
July 202577.8%2,788
June 202577.3%2,925
May 202573.3%2,807
April 202573.5%2,993
March 202575.6%2,959
February 202575.5%2,898
January 202573.9%2,992
December 202474.8%3,003
November 202474.2%2,912
October 202473%2,863
September 202467.9%2,929
August 202463.1%3,060
July 202458.8%3,267
June 202458.4%3,363
May 202458.4%3,398
April 202457.5%3,453
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 urology 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 Urology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi2,09764%-17.5 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi2,39462%-18.9 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14 mi1,98866%-15.3 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust18.1 mi7,58154%-26.7 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi6,44355%-25.8 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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