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Plastic surgery waiting times at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 5,768 people were on the Plastic surgery at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (49%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
5,768
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
48.6%
England: 59.4%
Over 52 weeks
265
Median wait
19 wks
Published median for this list

265 people (4.6%, roughly 1 in 22) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10.8 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 3.4% of everyone waiting at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Plastic surgery, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Plastic surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 48.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 48.8% 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
48.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
50.8% then · change to latest -2.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
48.3% then · change to latest +0.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
48.8% then · change to latest -0.2 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
41.5% then · change to latest +7.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202648.6%5,768
July 202649.8%5,529
June 202650.5%5,261
May 202650.8%4,929
April 202649.7%4,760
March 202648.8%4,701
February 202648.3%4,780
January 202647.4%4,283
December 202547.8%4,367
November 202549.6%4,285
October 202550.3%4,095
September 202551.8%4,133
August 202548.8%3,969
July 202547.2%3,867
June 202546.9%3,733
May 202545.8%3,778
April 202542.9%3,876
March 202543%3,911
February 202541.1%4,006
January 202540.8%4,074
December 202440.4%4,184
November 202441.2%4,354
October 202439.7%4,311
September 202438.2%4,232
August 202436.6%4,206
July 202438%4,199
June 202440.2%4,169
May 202442%4,150
April 202441.5%4,317
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 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
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust2.3 mi17599%+50.2 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi1,35955%+6.4 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi78646%-2.6 pp
East Cheshire NHS Trust14.3 mi3197%+48.1 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust21.5 mi52964%+15.6 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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