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Urology waiting times at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 7,581 people were on the Urology at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
7,581
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.3%
England: 64.8%
Over 52 weeks
217
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

217 people (2.9%, roughly 1 in 34) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 10.4 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 5.5% of everyone waiting at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Urology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 54.3% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 46.4% 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
54.3%
3 months earlier · May 2026
61.5% then · change to latest -7.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
54.1% then · change to latest +0.3 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
46.4% then · change to latest +7.9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
48% then · change to latest +6.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202654.3%7,581
July 202653.7%7,338
June 202658.8%7,441
May 202661.5%7,716
April 202662.5%7,556
March 202662.5%7,302
February 202654.1%7,120
January 202652%7,434
December 202552.6%7,571
November 202552.2%7,647
October 202550.5%7,831
September 202548.4%8,108
August 202546.4%8,226
July 202548.2%8,203
June 202549.2%8,224
May 202549.8%8,211
April 202549.3%8,263
March 202548.7%8,026
February 202547.5%7,832
January 202547.8%7,717
December 202449.8%7,555
November 202449.4%7,913
October 202447.1%8,194
September 202446.2%8,017
August 202444.9%7,955
July 202446.1%7,852
June 202449.3%7,839
May 202449.9%7,954
April 202448%8,214
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 urology 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 Urology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi6,44355%+0.9 pp
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust5.5 mi14790%+36.1 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi2,39462%+7.9 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi67698%+43.9 pp
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi2,09266%+12 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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