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Gastroenterology waiting times at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,656 people were on the Gastroenterology at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (44%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
1,656
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
44.1%
England: 69.7%
Over 52 weeks
66
Median wait
21 wks
Published median for this list

66 people (4.0%, roughly 1 in 25) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 25.6 percentage points behind 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 5.5% of everyone waiting at Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Gastroenterology at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 44.1% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 56.1% 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
44.1%
3 months earlier · May 2026
41.6% then · change to latest +2.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
40% then · change to latest +4.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
56.1% then · change to latest -12 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
68.1% then · change to latest -23.9 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202644.1%1,656
July 202642.8%1,612
June 202642.2%1,611
May 202641.6%1,574
April 202640.6%1,603
March 202641.4%1,608
February 202640%1,776
January 202642%1,818
December 202541.4%1,818
November 202543.5%1,932
October 202543.3%1,931
September 202548.5%1,892
August 202556.1%1,919
July 202560.7%1,820
June 202568.4%1,774
May 202573.3%1,617
April 202571.1%1,271
March 202578.4%1,201
February 202580.4%997
January 202583.2%946
December 202482.3%847
November 202480.5%794
October 202478.1%775
September 202472.7%627
August 202464.5%609
July 202470.8%726
June 202467.1%772
May 202467.5%806
April 202468.1%864
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 gastroenterology 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 Gastroenterology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust13.5 mi5,66262%+17.9 pp
East Cheshire NHS Trust17.1 mi1,49952%+8.2 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust18.6 mi85291%+46.5 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust19.9 mi3,08278%+33.4 pp
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust23.2 mi3,14065%+21.2 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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