Waiting times by location
NHS waiting times near Preston
5 NHS trusts within 15 miles of Preston city centre reported referral-to-treatment figures for June 2026.
- NHS trusts with data
- 5
- People waiting (combined)
- 197,894
- Sum of published trust totals
- Best-performing trust
- 90.4%
- share under 18 weeks
- Lowest
- 58.7%
- share under 18 weeks
Trusts compared
Sorted by straight-line distance from a reference point in central Preston (not an administrative boundary; distances are between registered addresses, not travel time). All-services figures hide large differences between individual services, so open a trust to see service-level figures.
| Trust | Distance | Waiting | Under 18 weeks | Over 52 weeks | Tests over 6 wks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 2 mi | 60,692 | 59% | 666 | 28.9% |
| Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust | 4 mi | 4,222 | 90% | 0 | 5.3% |
| East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust | 10 mi | 47,178 | 72% | 224 | 4.3% |
| Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 13.4 mi | 40,413 | 59% | 1,101 | 22.4% |
| Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 14.5 mi | 45,389 | 61% | 1,062 | 11.8% |
A further 12 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 · 4 trusts · England 69.3%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: 89.5% — Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 45.6% (gap 43.9 pp)
Orthopaedics · 5 trusts · England 60.6%
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: 90.6% — Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 53.3% (gap 37.3 pp)
Respiratory medicine · 3 trusts · England 74.8%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: 96.7% — Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 59.5% (gap 37.2 pp)
Cardiology · 4 trusts · England 68.2%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: 88.2% — Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 52.0% (gap 36.2 pp)
Urology · 4 trusts · England 65.0%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: 79.4% — Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 48.9% (gap 30.5 pp)
Ear, nose and throat (ENT) · 4 trusts · England 59.0%
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: 81.2% — Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 51.6% (gap 29.7 pp)
Ophthalmology · 4 trusts · England 73.8%
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 85.2% — Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 64.5% (gap 20.7 pp)
Rheumatology · 4 trusts · England 70.8%
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust: 88.4% — Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: 68.2% (gap 20.2 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.