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

At the end of June 2026, 5,613 people were on the Gynaecology at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
5,613
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
69.4%
England: 61%
Over 52 weeks
89
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

89 people (1.6%, roughly 1 in 63) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.5 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 6.8% 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 improved by 11.5 percentage points (58% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (68.6% in March 2026); up 4.3 points over 6 months (65.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +11.5 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 202557.9%
August 202562.3%
September 202563%
October 202564%
November 202565.2%
December 202565.1%
January 202663.5%
February 202665.6%
March 202668.6%
April 202668.4%
May 202669%
June 202669.4%

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 Gynaecology figures at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,76857.9%179
August 20255,56162.3%149
September 20256,04263.0%121
October 20256,21264.0%127
November 20255,93865.2%107
December 20255,77065.1%137
January 20265,71863.5%130
February 20265,84265.6%136
March 20265,69668.6%72
April 20265,52368.4%64
May 20265,52269.0%57
June 20265,61369.4%89

Other NHS trusts offering gynaecology 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 Gynaecology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi10,38562%-7.5 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi3,58265%-4.3 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi2,98663%-6.2 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi3,04063%-6.6 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi2,92357%-12.9 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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