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Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 62,317 people were on the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RXN

People waiting (all services)
62,317
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.0%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
364
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

364 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) 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 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Neurology8,30551%62.3%5+9.3 pp
Oral surgery4,70552%53.8%47-4 pp
Orthopaedics4,61355%60.9%23-6.9 pp
Plastic surgery4,37655%59.4%15+2.8 pp
Ophthalmology3,64979%72.2%2+8.7 pp
Neurosurgery3,62662%62.0%0+5.2 pp
Cardiology3,33369%67.9%0+10.7 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,21966%56.8%8+2.6 pp
Dermatology2,16168%69.0%0+18.3 pp
Urology2,09764%64.8%4-8.2 pp
Gynaecology1,80763%59.6%18+21.1 pp
Respiratory medicine1,79065%74.1%1—
Gastroenterology1,77547%69.7%11+0.9 pp
General surgery21446%63.2%1-6.5 pp
Elderly medicine15091%84.3%0+4.4 pp
General medicine7747%72.3%0-9.9 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.5 percentage points (55% to 60%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.6 points over 3 months (57.4% in May 2026); up 4.3 points over 6 months (55.7% in February 2026); up 6.7 points over 12 months (53.3% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +5.5 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 202554.5%
August 202553.3%
September 202554.7%
October 202554.1%
November 202554.1%
December 202553.1%
January 202653.2%
February 202655.7%
March 202659.4%
April 202657.4%
May 202657.4%
June 202658.7%
July 202658.9%
August 202660%

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 Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202564,57954.5%2,035
August 202565,33753.3%2,158
September 202565,33454.7%1,864
October 202564,31954.1%1,926
November 202564,39254.1%2,033
December 202564,04953.1%1,977
January 202663,33253.2%1,584
February 202664,10455.7%1,321
March 202665,16759.4%896
April 202661,32957.4%840
May 202660,42857.4%815
June 202660,69258.7%666
July 202661,03358.9%362
August 202662,31760.0%364

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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