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

At the end of June 2026, 7,714 people were on the Orthopaedics 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 · Orthopaedics across England

People waiting
7,714
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
69.0%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
124
Median wait
10 wks
Published median for this list

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

This hospital's published position is 8.4 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 9.4% 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 (69% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.3 points over 3 months (66.7% in March 2026); up 4.9 points over 6 months (64.1% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · +0.2 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 202568.8%
August 202569.3%
September 202570.2%
October 202569.4%
November 202568%
December 202564.1%
January 202661.3%
February 202662.1%
March 202666.7%
April 202667%
May 202668.2%
June 202669%

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 Orthopaedics figures at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,75968.8%199
August 20257,17469.3%199
September 20257,20970.2%175
October 20257,26669.4%144
November 20257,30868.0%130
December 20256,77364.1%112
January 20266,50061.3%125
February 20266,88262.1%111
March 20267,19466.7%66
April 20267,35667.0%80
May 20267,60868.2%125
June 20267,71469.0%124

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics 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 Orthopaedics
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi4,61452%-17.4 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi3,45351%-17.8 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi8,97762%-7 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi2,61453%-15.6 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi2,41763%-6.4 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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