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Plastic surgery waiting times at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,359 people were on the Plastic surgery at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Plastic surgery across England

People waiting
1,359
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
55.0%
England: 59.4%
Over 52 weeks
54
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

54 people (4.0%, roughly 1 in 25) 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 1% of everyone waiting at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for Plastic surgery at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 55% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 62.4% 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
55%
3 months earlier · May 2026
58.8% then · change to latest -3.8 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
58.4% then · change to latest -3.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
62.4% then · change to latest -7.4 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
71.7% then · change to latest -16.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202655%1,359
July 202658.9%1,313
June 202659.5%1,273
May 202658.8%1,257
April 202656.3%1,195
March 202656.8%1,156
February 202658.4%1,132
January 202659.3%1,142
December 202558.9%1,195
November 202559.3%1,145
October 202561.1%1,110
September 202562.2%1,084
August 202562.4%1,045
July 202561.7%1,035
June 202565.1%1,080
May 202566.6%1,109
April 202566.1%1,088
March 202566.5%1,085
February 202564.1%1,029
January 202559.5%1,060
December 202464.8%1,015
November 202465.8%1,049
October 202466.9%1,060
September 202467.6%957
August 202469.3%947
July 202472.1%919
June 202474.4%857
May 202471.9%822
April 202471.7%836
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 plastic surgery 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 Plastic surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi5,76849%-6.4 pp
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust5.5 mi17599%+43.8 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi78646%-9 pp
East Cheshire NHS Trust17.3 mi3197%+41.7 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust19.5 mi8,82151%-4.4 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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