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Gynaecology waiting times at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,867 people were on the Gynaecology at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (63%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
3,867
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.7%
England: 59.6%
Over 52 weeks
53
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

53 people (1.4%, roughly 1 in 71) 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 10.9% of everyone waiting at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Gynaecology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 62.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 63.5% 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
62.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
66.2% then · change to latest -3.5 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
66.2% then · change to latest -3.5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
63.5% then · change to latest -0.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
49.5% then · change to latest +13.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202662.7%3,867
July 202664.3%3,692
June 202665.1%3,582
May 202666.2%3,479
April 202666.6%3,397
March 202668.8%3,393
February 202666.2%3,416
January 202666.6%3,374
December 202567.2%3,529
November 202567.1%3,333
October 202566.8%3,429
September 202564.8%3,363
August 202563.5%3,318
July 202565.2%3,322
June 202564.1%3,265
May 202561.7%3,110
April 202560.6%3,135
March 202560.4%3,104
February 202559.8%3,173
January 202562.6%3,331
December 202463.1%3,421
November 202462.3%3,444
October 202455.4%3,744
September 202454.9%3,995
August 202452.9%4,124
July 202452.3%4,404
June 202452.1%4,508
May 202451.1%4,543
April 202449.5%4,523
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 gynaecology 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 Gynaecology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust7.4 mi6,26969%+5.9 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.3 mi2,79958%-4.4 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi3,33452%-11.2 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi10,22948%-15.2 pp
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust14.4 mi9,77159%-3.3 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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