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University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of June 2026, 35,626 people were on the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (71%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · North West · ODS code RTX

People waiting (all services)
35,626
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
70.7%
England: 65.8%
Over 52 weeks
666
Services reported
16
with people currently waiting

666 people (1.9%, roughly 1 in 53) 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 University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics6,10763%60.6%277-0.4 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)3,59573%59.0%49+11.5 pp
Gynaecology2,66868%61.0%57-0.1 pp
Ophthalmology2,51182%73.8%41+1.9 pp
Gastroenterology2,38778%69.3%4-8.1 pp
Urology2,31169%65.0%45-4.7 pp
Oral surgery2,30764%55.0%26+0.9 pp
General surgery2,23949%63.0%54-4.6 pp
Dermatology1,31195%69.0%0+5.7 pp
Rheumatology94572%70.8%10-2 pp
Cardiology77785%68.2%5+23.2 pp
Respiratory medicine49095%74.8%0+5.7 pp
Elderly medicine17596%83.1%00 pp
General medicine10983%71.4%3-10.3 pp
Plastic surgery6497%59.3%0+3.5 pp
Cardiothoracic surgery12100%72.8%0+14.3 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people waiting at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 3.3 percentage points (67% to 71%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (71.5% in March 2026); up 2.4 points over 6 months (68.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +3.3 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202567.4%
August 202567.4%
September 202568.6%
October 202569%
November 202569.2%
December 202568.3%
January 202667.4%
February 202667.2%
March 202671.5%
April 202671.5%
May 202671%
June 202670.7%

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 University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202534,93767.4%485
August 202534,46867.4%465
September 202534,04968.6%494
October 202534,02669.0%567
November 202533,88769.2%530
December 202535,36868.3%473
January 202635,36967.4%523
February 202634,78667.2%570
March 202633,94171.5%545
April 202634,41071.5%561
May 202634,92071.0%589
June 202635,62670.7%666

Diagnostic tests

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

Waiting times across this area

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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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