Waiting times by location
NHS waiting times in North West
25 NHS trusts in the North West NHS region reported referral-to-treatment figures for June 2026.
- NHS trusts with data
- 25
- People waiting (combined)
- 1,015,037
- Sum of published trust totals
- Best-performing trust
- 97.6%
- share under 18 weeks
- Lowest
- 57.2%
- share under 18 weeks
Trusts compared
Trusts whose registered region is this NHS region, listed alphabetically. Regions are NHS England administrative areas, so a trust near a boundary may serve people across it. All-services figures hide large differences between individual services, so open a trust to see service-level figures.
A further 67 NHS-funded independent-sector and other providers in this area are not listed because their case mix makes direct comparison misleading.
Services where local trusts differ most
Gap in the share waiting under 18 weeks between the highest and lowest trust here, for services with at least 200 people waiting.
Gastroenterology · 18 trusts · England 69.3%
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust: 92.8% — Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 42.2% (gap 50.6 pp)
Urology · 18 trusts · England 65.0%
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust: 99.1% — Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 48.9% (gap 50.2 pp)
Rheumatology · 17 trusts · England 70.8%
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust: 96.6% — Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust: 49.3% (gap 47.3 pp)
Cardiology · 19 trusts · England 68.2%
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust: 92.8% — Bolton NHS Foundation Trust: 46.6% (gap 46.2 pp)
Respiratory medicine · 18 trusts · England 74.8%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: 96.7% — East Cheshire NHS Trust: 51.4% (gap 45.3 pp)
Dermatology · 15 trusts · England 69.0%
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust: 95.0% — Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust: 51.5% (gap 43.5 pp)
Orthopaedics · 19 trusts · England 60.6%
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: 90.6% — North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust: 51.1% (gap 39.5 pp)
Elderly medicine · 9 trusts · England 83.1%
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust: 93.5% — Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 55.4% (gap 38.1 pp)
Distance is not travel time
Distances are straight-line between registered addresses and city centres. Trusts often run several hospital sites, so the site you would attend may be closer or further.
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.
Related guides on this site
- NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
- How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
- Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
- Your rights while you wait
Reference article on what the 18-week standard is and is not.