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General medicine waiting times at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 212 people were on the General medicine at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (88%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
212
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
87.7%
England: 71.4%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
8 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.5%, roughly 1 in 200) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 16.3 percentage points better than 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 Manchester University 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 11.7 percentage points (76% to 88%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 2.8 points over 3 months (90.5% in March 2026); up 12.9 points over 6 months (74.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +11.7 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 202576%
August 202570.2%
September 202566.3%
October 202565%
November 202560.6%
December 202574.8%
January 202673.8%
February 202682.7%
March 202690.5%
April 202686.5%
May 202689.1%
June 202687.7%

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 General medicine figures at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202537976.0%0
August 202537970.2%2
September 202539566.3%2
October 202538065.0%0
November 202534360.6%2
December 202532174.8%0
January 202631773.8%1
February 202627882.7%1
March 202625290.5%0
April 202620786.5%0
May 202620189.1%0
June 202621287.7%1

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
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi3197%+9 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust6.7 mi4093%+4.8 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi2190%+2.7 pp
East Cheshire NHS Trust14.3 mi6100%+12.3 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust16.5 mi63100%+12.3 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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