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General surgery waiting times at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,028 people were on the General surgery at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (45%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General surgery across England

People waiting
2,028
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
44.9%
England: 63%
Over 52 weeks
49
Median wait
20 wks
Published median for this list

49 people (2.4%, roughly 1 in 42) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.1 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 3.2% of everyone waiting at Liverpool University 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 4.3 percentage points (41% to 45%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (45.9% in March 2026); up 4.3 points over 6 months (40.6% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.3 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 202540.6%
August 202542.2%
September 202539.7%
October 202541.3%
November 202543.6%
December 202540.6%
January 202642.2%
February 202644.4%
March 202645.9%
April 202642.2%
May 202642.5%
June 202644.9%

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 General surgery figures at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,31640.6%146
August 20252,29442.2%153
September 20252,30539.7%170
October 20252,26541.3%132
November 20252,18843.6%91
December 20252,21140.6%89
January 20262,27942.2%89
February 20262,32544.4%73
March 20262,19745.9%72
April 20262,02342.2%55
May 20261,98242.5%43
June 20262,02844.9%49

Other NHS trusts offering general 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 General surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust6.1 mi39181%+35.9 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust7.4 mi6,56764%+19.2 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust14.1 mi1,04868%+23.4 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust14.6 mi80880%+35.6 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust17.2 mi2,04146%+0.9 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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