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Dermatology waiting times at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 1,872 people were on the Dermatology at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
1,872
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.6%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.4 percentage points behind 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 3.1% of everyone waiting at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.5 percentage points (58% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 5.6 points over 3 months (56.0% in March 2026); up 20.5 points over 6 months (41.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.5 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 202558.1%
August 202555.8%
September 202553.1%
October 202549.4%
November 202547.4%
December 202541.1%
January 202639.9%
February 202649.7%
March 202656%
April 202660.5%
May 202661.4%
June 202661.6%

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 Dermatology figures at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,30858.1%45
August 20252,48455.8%87
September 20252,67653.1%150
October 20252,53349.4%173
November 20252,44047.4%132
December 20252,30541.1%100
January 20262,31339.9%81
February 20262,60349.7%87
March 20262,48256.0%2
April 20261,96560.5%7
May 20261,81561.4%5
June 20261,87261.6%1

Other NHS trusts offering dermatology 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 Dermatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust10.7 mi2,11262%+0.4 pp
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust12.8 mi3,15966%+4.2 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust16.5 mi2,85665%+3.3 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust19.9 mi2,68072%+9.9 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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