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General medicine waiting times at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 77 people were on the General medicine at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (47%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General medicine across England

People waiting
77
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
46.8%
England: 72.3%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
20 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 25.5 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 0.1% of everyone waiting at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 12.9 percentage points (60% to 47%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 11.8 points over 3 months (58.6% in May 2026); down 9.8 points over 6 months (56.6% in February 2026); down 10.2 points over 12 months (57.0% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance deteriorating · -12.9 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202559.7%
August 202557%
September 202554.5%
October 202553.6%
November 202553.4%
December 202553.1%
January 202650.4%
February 202656.6%
March 202669.4%
April 202661.9%
May 202658.6%
June 202659.2%
July 202656.4%
August 202646.8%

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 General medicine figures at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,14759.7%5
August 20252,18657.0%6
September 20252,14954.5%6
October 20252,27853.6%8
November 20252,28153.4%15
December 20252,31653.1%12
January 20262,27150.4%13
February 20262,22356.6%10
March 20262,06269.4%8
April 20261,95561.9%12
May 20261,95458.6%9
June 20262,00259.2%0
July 20262,02256.4%0
August 20267746.8%0

Other NHS trusts offering general 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 General medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust10.7 mi580%+33.3 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust16.5 mi14081%+34 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust19.9 mi22100%+53.3 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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