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Plastic surgery waiting times at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,229 people were on the Plastic surgery at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
4,229
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.7%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
93
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

93 people (2.2%, roughly 1 in 45) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 7% 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 stayed broadly stable (56% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (55.1% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (54.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -1.1 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 202555.8%
August 202556.2%
September 202557.7%
October 202557.7%
November 202556.8%
December 202554.8%
January 202652.4%
February 202652.6%
March 202655.1%
April 202652.5%
May 202652.2%
June 202654.7%

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 Plastic surgery figures at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,73755.8%118
August 20253,80356.2%118
September 20253,96757.7%119
October 20254,05957.7%120
November 20254,20956.8%116
December 20254,27954.8%149
January 20264,20552.4%152
February 20264,27652.6%135
March 20264,22155.1%89
April 20264,10452.5%89
May 20264,07052.2%105
June 20264,22954.7%93

Other NHS trusts offering plastic surgery 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 Plastic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust12.8 mi23573%+18.1 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust19.9 mi72043%-11.3 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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