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Elderly medicine waiting times at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 793 people were on the Elderly medicine at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (71%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
793
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
71.0%
England: 84.3%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
10 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 13.3 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 0.5% of everyone waiting at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Elderly medicine, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Elderly medicine at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 71% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 72% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
71%
3 months earlier · May 2026
60.1% then · change to latest +10.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
65% then · change to latest +6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
72% then · change to latest -1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
57.4% then · change to latest +13.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202671%793
July 202668.4%765
June 202660.9%657
May 202660.1%695
April 202660.4%728
March 202664.2%703
February 202665%779
January 202663.1%756
December 202567%799
November 202571.3%842
October 202571.4%818
September 202572.2%874
August 202572%899
July 202572.5%823
June 202572.5%850
May 202570.6%974
April 202567.2%986
March 202567.5%961
February 202565.1%910
January 202565.3%940
December 202464.5%971
November 202461.7%990
October 202457.8%1,021
September 202457.6%1,049
August 202455.1%1,087
July 202457.1%1,120
June 202455.5%1,095
May 202456.6%951
April 202457.4%894
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering elderly 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 Elderly medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi23294%+23 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust6.7 mi1100%+29 pp
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust6.7 mi11396%+25.5 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi28590%+19.2 pp
East Cheshire NHS Trust14.3 mi7080%+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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