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Gastroenterology waiting times at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,932 people were on the Gastroenterology at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (78%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
6,932
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
77.6%
England: 69.3%
Over 52 weeks
15
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

15 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.3 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 8.5% 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 worsened by 4 percentage points (82% to 78%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (76.9% in March 2026); up 2.5 points over 6 months (75.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -4 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 202581.6%
August 202579.8%
September 202577.7%
October 202576.6%
November 202575%
December 202575.1%
January 202673.5%
February 202674.8%
March 202676.9%
April 202679.4%
May 202678.9%
June 202677.6%

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 Gastroenterology figures at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,96081.6%1
August 20256,20279.8%1
September 20256,12977.7%1
October 20256,02576.6%1
November 20255,49775.0%1
December 20255,93075.1%5
January 20266,08373.5%13
February 20266,58174.8%10
March 20267,28076.9%14
April 20267,82779.4%19
May 20267,55878.9%20
June 20266,93277.6%15

Other NHS trusts offering gastroenterology 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 Gastroenterology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi7,08863%-14.9 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi2,88178%+0.1 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi4,41954%-23.2 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi3,17063%-14.7 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi85089%+11.1 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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