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

At the end of August 2026, 1,988 people were on the Urology at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
1,988
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.7%
England: 64.8%
Over 52 weeks
54
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

54 people (2.7%, roughly 1 in 37) 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 4.3% of everyone waiting at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Urology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 65.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 65.1% 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
65.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
69.6% then · change to latest -3.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
73.6% then · change to latest -7.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
65.1% then · change to latest +0.6 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
55.1% then · change to latest +10.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202665.7%1,988
July 202665%1,969
June 202668.4%1,883
May 202669.6%1,787
April 202669.9%1,652
March 202671.9%1,645
February 202673.6%1,599
January 202672.2%1,527
December 202573%1,557
November 202573.3%1,623
October 202572.8%1,685
September 202569.1%1,696
August 202565.1%1,703
July 202564.3%1,739
June 202562.8%1,876
May 202560.2%1,944
April 202557.8%2,025
March 202557.2%2,087
February 202558.1%2,057
January 202556.4%2,253
December 202452.6%2,264
November 202453.1%2,259
October 202453.4%2,349
September 202450.8%2,556
August 202452.9%2,618
July 202452.7%2,649
June 202452.1%2,829
May 202454.3%2,966
April 202455.1%3,078
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 urology 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 Urology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust8.2 mi2,39462%-3.5 pp
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust11.3 mi2,02169%+3.6 pp
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust11.4 mi5,49068%+2.6 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi7,58154%-11.4 pp
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust14 mi1,99281%+15.3 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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