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Elderly medicine waiting times at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 391 people were on the Elderly medicine at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (85%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
391
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
85.2%
England: 83.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (87% to 85%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (86.2% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (84.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -1.9 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 202587.1%
August 202587.9%
September 202586.1%
October 202587.9%
November 202583.9%
December 202584.8%
January 202688.2%
February 202682.4%
March 202686.2%
April 202684.2%
May 202680.5%
June 202685.2%

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 Elderly medicine figures at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202520187.1%0
August 202524087.9%0
September 202522386.1%0
October 202520687.9%0
November 202519383.9%0
December 202519184.8%0
January 202623788.2%0
February 202625582.4%0
March 202634086.2%0
April 202636684.2%0
May 202634880.5%0
June 202639185.2%0

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
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi1,10555%-29.8 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi38562%-23.1 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi32967%-18 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi16796%+11.2 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi21190%+4.4 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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