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Dermatology waiting times at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 3,201 people were on the Dermatology at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (61%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
3,201
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
61.3%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
24
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

24 people (0.7%, roughly 1 in 143) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7.7 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 7.4% of everyone waiting at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Dermatology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 61.3% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 60.4% 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
61.3%
3 months earlier · May 2026
60.6% then · change to latest +0.7 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
45.5% then · change to latest +15.8 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
60.4% then · change to latest +0.9 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
57.2% then · change to latest +4.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202661.3%3,201
July 202663.6%3,279
June 202663.4%3,241
May 202660.6%3,154
April 202657.2%2,915
March 202652.6%3,090
February 202645.5%3,437
January 202646.8%3,535
December 202550.9%3,950
November 202553.8%4,156
October 202557%4,520
September 202559.1%4,303
August 202560.4%4,189
July 202562.2%4,090
June 202561.2%3,627
May 202557.4%3,310
April 202552.8%3,271
March 202547%3,862
February 202547.4%3,742
January 202548.7%3,819
December 202449%3,640
November 202455.2%3,690
October 202453.1%3,882
September 202450.3%4,120
August 202450.5%3,978
July 202452%3,775
June 202455.6%3,709
May 202459%3,496
April 202457.2%3,296
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 dermatology 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 Dermatology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6.1 mi4,30066%+4.2 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust13.3 mi8,20855%-6 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi2,58176%+14.7 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust23.2 mi3,09562%+0.2 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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