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Dermatology waiting times at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,443 people were on the Dermatology at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (79%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
3,443
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.9%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
1
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

1 people (0.0%) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.9 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 12.1% of everyone waiting at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 28.1 percentage points (51% to 79%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 19.1 points over 3 months (59.8% in March 2026); up 28.2 points over 6 months (50.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +28.1 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 202550.8%
August 202551.8%
September 202553.5%
October 202553.6%
November 202552.4%
December 202550.7%
January 202653.4%
February 202655.8%
March 202659.8%
April 202661.6%
May 202673.8%
June 202678.9%

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 Dermatology figures at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,43750.8%255
August 20257,72051.8%230
September 20257,70453.5%176
October 20257,56953.6%136
November 20257,45152.4%99
December 20257,07750.7%62
January 20266,11953.4%56
February 20265,39455.8%25
March 20264,65659.8%5
April 20264,72961.6%4
May 20264,10973.8%9
June 20263,44378.9%1

Other NHS trusts offering dermatology 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 Dermatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust13.5 mi1,59682%+2.6 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust18.6 mi2,49374%-4.7 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust24.5 mi7,56054%-24.8 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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