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Respiratory medicine waiting times at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,904 people were on the Respiratory medicine at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Respiratory medicine across England

People waiting
3,904
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
57.4%
England: 74.8%
Over 52 weeks
6
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

6 people (0.2%, roughly 1 in 500) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 17.4 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 8.6% of everyone waiting at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (58% to 57%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 9.3 points over 3 months (66.7% in March 2026); down 4 points over 6 months (61.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -0.3 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 202557.7%
August 202559.1%
September 202560.4%
October 202558%
November 202556.7%
December 202561.4%
January 202662.7%
February 202661.5%
March 202666.7%
April 202664.3%
May 202660.2%
June 202657.4%

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 Respiratory medicine figures at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,33257.7%24
August 20253,43159.1%24
September 20253,42260.4%14
October 20253,63958.0%18
November 20253,65756.7%18
December 20253,45061.4%11
January 20263,65062.7%17
February 20263,74461.5%17
March 20263,41666.7%3
April 20263,57264.3%3
May 20263,70960.2%4
June 20263,90457.4%6

Other NHS trusts offering respiratory medicine 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 Respiratory medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6.1 mi1,22984%+26.3 pp
Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust8.7 mi59493%+35.5 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust13.3 mi1,30084%+26.2 pp
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.8 mi1,13185%+27.4 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust20.1 mi1,09272%+14.6 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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