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

At the end of August 2026, 2,129 people were on the General surgery at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (45%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
2,129
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
44.5%
England: 63.2%
Over 52 weeks
134
Median wait
21 wks
Published median for this list

134 people (6.3%, roughly 1 in 16) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 18.7 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 4.6% of everyone waiting at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for General surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 44.5% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 46.6% 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
44.5%
3 months earlier · May 2026
46.8% then · change to latest -2.3 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
48.7% then · change to latest -4.1 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
46.6% then · change to latest -2.1 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
43.9% then · change to latest +0.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202644.5%2,129
July 202644.4%2,081
June 202645.8%2,041
May 202646.8%2,043
April 202648.3%2,008
March 202648%1,956
February 202648.7%1,944
January 202649.9%1,947
December 202550.2%1,848
November 202548.4%1,772
October 202549.3%1,750
September 202549%1,718
August 202546.6%1,629
July 202546.7%1,676
June 202545.4%1,737
May 202545.8%1,793
April 202545.1%1,813
March 202545.6%1,782
February 202544.3%1,796
January 202543.4%1,761
December 202440.7%1,697
November 202441.6%1,681
October 202441.1%1,764
September 202443.7%1,839
August 202446%1,991
July 202446.8%1,946
June 202448.2%1,958
May 202446.1%1,947
April 202443.9%1,925
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 general surgery 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 General surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi4,11968%+23.9 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust11.3 mi71876%+31.2 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust11.4 mi6,31460%+15.8 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi5,70149%+4 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust14 mi3,14564%+19.5 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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