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Neurosurgery waiting times at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,432 people were on the Neurosurgery at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (51%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
4,432
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
51.1%
England: 62.8%
Over 52 weeks
172
Median wait
18 wks
Published median for this list

172 people (3.9%, roughly 1 in 26) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 11.7 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 3.3% of everyone waiting at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 9 percentage points (60% to 51%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 5.5 points over 3 months (56.6% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (52.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -9 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 202560.1%
August 202558.7%
September 202557.8%
October 202555.8%
November 202553.8%
December 202552.9%
January 202658.3%
February 202658.9%
March 202656.6%
April 202654%
May 202651.9%
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 Neurosurgery figures at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,88960.1%60
August 20254,97458.7%73
September 20255,09357.8%69
October 20255,22655.8%57
November 20255,23253.8%69
December 20255,40152.9%89
January 20264,65758.3%128
February 20264,48158.9%134
March 20264,25656.6%158
April 20264,55254.0%171
May 20264,64551.9%191
June 20264,43251.1%172

Other NHS trusts offering neurosurgery 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 Neurosurgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi838%-13.6 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust19.5 mi4439%-12.5 pp
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust25 mi3,66066%+14.7 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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