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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 66,322 people were on the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code REM

People waiting (all services)
66,322
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.7%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
827
Services reported
14
with people currently waiting

827 people (1.2%, roughly 1 in 83) 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 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ophthalmology8,34877%72.2%0+4.7 pp
Gastroenterology6,88668%69.7%45+6.8 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)6,03751%56.8%170+2.6 pp
Orthopaedics4,67255%60.9%52+9.1 pp
Dermatology4,30066%69.0%21+11.7 pp
Oral surgery4,07051%53.8%87+3.3 pp
Urology3,81751%64.8%28-6.8 pp
Cardiology3,47873%67.9%3-3.1 pp
General surgery2,26948%63.2%39+3.9 pp
Elderly medicine1,39966%84.3%0+2.1 pp
Respiratory medicine1,21485%74.1%0-4.4 pp
Rheumatology64382%70.4%0-2.1 pp
Plastic surgery18131%59.4%0+6.5 pp
General medicine7795%72.3%0-2.6 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 6.8 percentage points (56% to 63%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.1 points over 3 months (60.6% in May 2026); up 5.1 points over 6 months (57.6% in February 2026); up 6.6 points over 12 months (56.1% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +6.8 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 202555.9%
August 202556.1%
September 202556%
October 202556.3%
November 202556.5%
December 202555.3%
January 202655.5%
February 202657.6%
March 202662.2%
April 202660.7%
May 202660.6%
June 202661.4%
July 202660.7%
August 202662.7%

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 Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202566,83755.9%2,525
August 202567,59556.1%2,349
September 202566,58556.0%2,113
October 202566,33056.3%1,675
November 202564,62956.5%1,517
December 202563,99155.3%1,059
January 202664,08155.5%981
February 202662,82057.6%876
March 202660,65062.2%560
April 202659,70860.7%664
May 202661,41360.6%707
June 202662,98661.4%773
July 202663,03160.7%736
August 202666,32262.7%827

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.

  • Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust · 0.8 mi11,052 waiting · 61%
  • Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · 2.8 mi5,455 waiting · 80%
  • Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust · 2.9 mi17,520 waiting · 66%
  • The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust · 4.2 mi14,722 waiting · 66%
  • The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust · 5.9 mi889 waiting · 97%

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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