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Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 4,222 people were on the Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (90%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RW5

People waiting (all services)
4,222
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
90.4%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
0
Services reported
2
with people currently waiting

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

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 Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics3,79091%60.6%0-5.6 pp
Rheumatology43288%70.8%0-4.1 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (92% to 90%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.8 points over 3 months (94.2% in March 2026); down 5.5 points over 6 months (95.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -1.9 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 202592.3%
August 202590.6%
September 202592.9%
October 202595.7%
November 202596.9%
December 202595.9%
January 202695.4%
February 202695.1%
March 202694.2%
April 202694.5%
May 202693.7%
June 202690.4%

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 Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,35692.3%0
August 20252,21790.6%0
September 20252,51392.9%0
October 20252,92795.7%0
November 20253,21696.9%0
December 20253,45095.9%0
January 20263,59295.4%0
February 20263,62895.1%0
March 20264,03394.2%0
April 20263,81694.5%0
May 20264,14193.7%0
June 20264,22290.4%0

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

Appointment letters carry the contact route for the team holding the referral. We only list contact details we have checked against the organisation's own published pages, and none are listed here yet.

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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