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Dermatology waiting times at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,856 people were on the Dermatology at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (65%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Dermatology across England

People waiting
2,856
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
64.9%
England: 69%
Over 52 weeks
3
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

3 people (0.1%, roughly 1 in 1000) 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 6.3% of everyone waiting at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 14.5 percentage points (50% to 65%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (63.3% in March 2026); up 14.1 points over 6 months (50.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +14.5 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 202550.4%
August 202552.4%
September 202551.9%
October 202551.4%
November 202551.6%
December 202550.8%
January 202657.3%
February 202662.2%
March 202663.3%
April 202661.5%
May 202662.4%
June 202664.9%

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 Dermatology figures at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20253,55550.4%158
August 20253,53452.4%229
September 20253,58151.9%179
October 20253,55551.4%142
November 20253,46451.6%104
December 20253,29750.8%42
January 20262,93157.3%26
February 20262,50762.2%26
March 20262,55663.3%11
April 20262,59461.5%14
May 20262,64962.4%7
June 20262,85664.9%3

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
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi2,68072%+6.6 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust11.4 mi7,56054%-10.9 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi15,22952%-13.4 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust14 mi2,11262%-2.9 pp
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust16.5 mi1,87262%-3.3 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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