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Orthopaedics waiting times at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,453 people were on the Orthopaedics at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
3,453
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
51.1%
England: 60.6%
Over 52 weeks
132
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

132 people (3.8%, roughly 1 in 26) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.5 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 9.9% of everyone waiting at North Cheshire and Mersey 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 6.2 percentage points (45% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3 points over 3 months (48.1% in March 2026); up 3.6 points over 6 months (47.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +6.2 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 202544.9%
August 202545.2%
September 202546.1%
October 202546.1%
November 202546.4%
December 202547.5%
January 202647.3%
February 202648%
March 202648.1%
April 202648.3%
May 202649.7%
June 202651.1%

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 Orthopaedics figures at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,68444.9%249
August 20253,72445.2%257
September 20253,67646.1%236
October 20253,73146.1%305
November 20253,70446.4%289
December 20253,54547.5%266
January 20263,52447.3%254
February 20263,43248.0%190
March 20263,33448.1%108
April 20263,42748.3%102
May 20263,45949.7%130
June 20263,45351.1%132

Other NHS trusts offering orthopaedics 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 Orthopaedics
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust7.4 mi7,71469%+17.8 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust11.3 mi8,97762%+10.9 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust13.3 mi2,27552%+0.6 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi14,09258%+7 pp
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.6 mi4,61452%+0.5 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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