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Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 133,909 people were on the Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RM3

People waiting (all services)
133,909
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.2%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
3,613
Services reported
17
with people currently waiting

3,613 people (2.7%, roughly 1 in 37) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Neurology17,43262%61.7%238+4.3 pp
Dermatology15,22952%69.0%122+10.4 pp
Orthopaedics14,09258%60.6%535+2.5 pp
Gastroenterology13,66154%69.3%273+2 pp
Gynaecology10,03654%61.0%597-1.7 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)9,32855%59.0%364+7.7 pp
Urology7,44159%65.0%191+6.2 pp
Ophthalmology6,27755%73.8%206+11.8 pp
General surgery5,46348%63.0%434+2.6 pp
Cardiology5,12868%68.2%0+15.7 pp
Neurosurgery4,43251%62.8%172-1.8 pp
Rheumatology2,17261%70.8%0+3.5 pp
Oral surgery1,85448%55.0%84+4 pp
Plastic surgery1,27360%59.3%42+0.6 pp
Respiratory medicine1,03389%74.8%0-1.1 pp
Elderly medicine21493%83.1%0+1.1 pp
General medicine3197%71.4%0+1.2 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.6 percentage points (54% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (59.0% in March 2026); up 4.3 points over 6 months (52.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.6 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 202553.6%
August 202552.7%
September 202553.6%
October 202554.2%
November 202553.7%
December 202552.9%
January 202652.4%
February 202654.4%
March 202659%
April 202658.3%
May 202658.4%
June 202657.2%

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 all-services figures for Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 2025137,54253.6%5,081
August 2025139,20452.7%5,194
September 2025140,60353.6%4,801
October 2025141,15154.2%4,572
November 2025138,00453.7%4,352
December 2025135,55952.9%4,159
January 2026134,27652.4%4,425
February 2026130,78154.4%4,571
March 2026129,22159.0%3,696
April 2026132,99858.3%3,799
May 2026134,64058.4%3,703
June 2026133,90957.2%3,613

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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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