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Oral surgery waiting times at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,221 people were on the Oral surgery at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (56%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,221
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.1%
England: 55%
Over 52 weeks
27
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

27 people (1.2%, roughly 1 in 83) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

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 2.7% 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 7.4 percentage points (64% to 56%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 6.4 points over 3 months (62.5% in March 2026); down 10.9 points over 6 months (67.0% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -7.4 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 202563.5%
August 202560.7%
September 202561.4%
October 202565.2%
November 202565.7%
December 202567%
January 202665.4%
February 202662.9%
March 202662.5%
April 202659.5%
May 202657.8%
June 202656.1%

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 Oral surgery figures at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20251,78563.5%19
August 20251,77360.7%16
September 20251,77661.4%16
October 20251,71665.2%18
November 20251,73165.7%13
December 20251,74667.0%16
January 20261,71365.4%29
February 20261,84662.9%39
March 20261,93962.5%33
April 20261,99459.5%39
May 20262,11757.8%23
June 20262,22156.1%27

Other NHS trusts offering oral 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 Oral surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi4,24255%-1.1 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi1,38162%+5.8 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi2,49652%-4 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi2,23745%-10.8 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust17.3 mi2,39251%-5.4 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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