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Gastroenterology waiting times at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,082 people were on the Gastroenterology at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (78%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
3,082
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
77.6%
England: 69.7%
Over 52 weeks
5
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

5 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.9 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 8.7% of everyone waiting at North Cheshire and Mersey 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 improved

Published 18-week performance for Gastroenterology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 77.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 69.1% 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
77.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
77.6% then · change to latest 0 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
73.3% then · change to latest +4.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
69.1% then · change to latest +8.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
69.1% then · change to latest +8.5 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202677.6%3,082
July 202677.4%3,010
June 202677.7%2,881
May 202677.6%2,816
April 202677.5%2,681
March 202675.9%2,694
February 202673.3%2,671
January 202671.2%2,497
December 202572.1%2,408
November 202574.3%2,467
October 202573.3%2,450
September 202573.3%2,520
August 202569.1%2,403
July 202565.4%2,411
June 202563.3%2,182
May 202562.6%2,227
April 202565.2%2,454
March 202567.5%2,520
February 202567.3%2,462
January 202566.8%2,356
December 202468.4%2,363
November 202468.9%2,539
October 202466.9%2,646
September 202467.2%2,666
August 202467%2,672
July 202468.7%2,825
June 202469.5%2,816
May 202469.2%2,827
April 202469.1%2,786
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
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust7.4 mi7,86279%+1.8 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.3 mi4,52854%-23.7 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi1,32293%+14.9 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi14,11357%-21 pp
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.6 mi6,88668%-9.7 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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