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Neurology waiting times at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 17,053 people were on the Neurology at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Neurology across England

People waiting
17,053
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.3%
England: 62.3%
Over 52 weeks
156
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

156 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) 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 12.4% of everyone waiting at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Neurology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 61.3% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 57.7% 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
61.3%
3 months earlier · May 2026
60.3% then · change to latest +1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
57.9% then · change to latest +3.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
57.7% then · change to latest +3.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
56.8% then · change to latest +4.5 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202661.3%17,053
July 202659.4%16,588
June 202661.7%17,432
May 202660.3%17,285
April 202659.9%17,529
March 202661.8%16,903
February 202657.9%17,566
January 202657.6%17,912
December 202557.4%17,647
November 202557.1%17,653
October 202558.6%18,908
September 202558.4%18,171
August 202557.7%18,457
July 202556.9%18,036
June 202556.3%17,602
May 202557.1%18,403
April 202555.7%18,308
March 202555.7%17,972
February 202554.6%18,078
January 202554.4%18,351
December 202455.9%17,792
November 202455.3%17,537
October 202455%17,112
September 202453.9%17,180
August 202451.8%17,735
July 202453.7%17,239
June 202455.4%17,266
May 202457.2%16,675
April 202456.8%16,037
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 neurology 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 Neurology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi7977%+15.9 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi15638%-22.8 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust23.8 mi72586%+25 pp
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust25 mi7,68571%+9.2 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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