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Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 28,421 people were on the Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (70%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RBT

People waiting (all services)
28,421
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
69.6%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
266
Services reported
13
with people currently waiting

266 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)4,66263%59.0%13+9.1 pp
Dermatology3,44379%69.0%1+28.2 pp
Orthopaedics3,10060%60.6%33+20.3 pp
Ophthalmology2,54582%73.8%3+16.9 pp
Gynaecology2,29462%61.0%79+9.8 pp
Gastroenterology1,61142%69.3%42+0.8 pp
Urology1,58183%65.0%3+9.3 pp
Cardiology1,39082%68.2%1+26.4 pp
General surgery1,20851%63.0%32+16.4 pp
Rheumatology1,00554%70.8%6+7 pp
Respiratory medicine23985%74.8%1+34.8 pp
Elderly medicine2295%83.1%0+57 pp
General medicine10%71.4%0-20.9 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 15.4 percentage points (54% to 70%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 7.1 points over 3 months (62.5% in March 2026); up 15.7 points over 6 months (53.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +15.4 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 202554.2%
August 202554.8%
September 202554.8%
October 202554.8%
November 202554.6%
December 202553.9%
January 202654.6%
February 202657.2%
March 202662.5%
April 202663.7%
May 202666.7%
June 202669.6%

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 all-services figures for Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202542,12254.2%2,053
August 202544,35154.8%2,051
September 202543,71754.8%1,838
October 202543,22054.8%1,493
November 202541,91354.6%1,144
December 202539,59453.9%862
January 202637,41254.6%800
February 202634,56157.2%627
March 202630,58562.5%409
April 202630,41563.7%332
May 202629,11166.7%346
June 202628,42169.6%266

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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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