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Plastic surgery waiting times at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 5,261 people were on the Plastic surgery at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
5,261
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
50.5%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
118
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

118 people (2.2%, roughly 1 in 45) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.8 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 3.2% 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 3.3 percentage points (47% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (48.8% in March 2026); up 2.7 points over 6 months (47.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.3 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 202547.2%
August 202548.8%
September 202551.8%
October 202550.3%
November 202549.6%
December 202547.8%
January 202647.4%
February 202648.3%
March 202648.8%
April 202649.7%
May 202650.8%
June 202650.5%

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 Plastic surgery figures at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,86747.2%280
August 20253,96948.8%284
September 20254,13351.8%284
October 20254,09550.3%265
November 20254,28549.6%257
December 20254,36747.8%180
January 20264,28347.4%136
February 20264,78048.3%138
March 20264,70148.8%159
April 20264,76049.7%122
May 20264,92950.8%96
June 20265,26150.5%118

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%+48.4 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi1,27360%+9.1 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi72043%-7.1 pp
East Cheshire NHS Trust14.3 mi3795%+44.1 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust21.5 mi54656%+5.9 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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