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

At the end of June 2026, 8,840 people were on the Plastic surgery at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
8,840
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.1%
England: 59.3%
Over 52 weeks
316
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

316 people (3.6%, roughly 1 in 28) 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 10.8% 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 5.7 percentage points (49% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (53.6% in March 2026); up 3.2 points over 6 months (51.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +5.7 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 202549.4%
August 202551.6%
September 202554.2%
October 202553.2%
November 202552.6%
December 202551.9%
January 202650.3%
February 202650.6%
March 202653.6%
April 202653.7%
May 202656%
June 202655.1%

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 Plastic surgery figures at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,41349.4%460
August 20256,51451.6%344
September 20256,74954.2%289
October 20256,93453.2%304
November 20257,17352.6%339
December 20257,10951.9%293
January 20267,08750.3%306
February 20267,36750.6%256
March 20267,43053.6%148
April 20268,11353.7%178
May 20268,54156.0%229
June 20268,84055.1%316

Other NHS trusts offering plastic 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 Plastic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi12221%-33.8 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi96372%+16.9 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust17.3 mi72043%-11.7 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust19.5 mi1,27360%+4.5 pp
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust22.9 mi17599%+43.8 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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