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

At the end of August 2026, 5,490 people were on the Urology at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (68%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
5,490
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
68.3%
England: 64.8%
Over 52 weeks
91
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

91 people (1.7%, roughly 1 in 59) 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 6.5% of everyone waiting at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Urology, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Urology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 68.3% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 59.3% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
68.3%
3 months earlier · May 2026
67.3% then · change to latest +1.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
63.8% then · change to latest +4.6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
59.3% then · change to latest +9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
63% then · change to latest +5.3 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202668.3%5,490
July 202670%5,710
June 202668.4%5,728
May 202667.3%5,844
April 202668.2%5,856
March 202667.3%5,990
February 202663.8%5,888
January 202660.1%6,054
December 202558.9%6,178
November 202558.5%6,159
October 202558.8%5,977
September 202559.8%6,017
August 202559.3%5,712
July 202561.8%5,628
June 202563%5,575
May 202561%5,712
April 202561.4%5,668
March 202561.9%5,778
February 202559.9%5,950
January 202559.5%6,432
December 202458.3%6,415
November 202456.4%6,598
October 202455.5%6,479
September 202454.2%6,282
August 202454.9%6,353
July 202456.7%6,416
June 202459.3%6,345
May 202460%6,245
April 202463%6,131
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering urology 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 Urology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi3,81751%-17.2 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust7.4 mi2,02169%+1 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.4 mi1,98866%-2.6 pp
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi1,93275%+6.7 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust15.3 mi1,29273%+5.1 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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