Bones, joints and muscles at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Whiston and Ormskirk District General trauma and orthopaedics waiting times: most people treated waited 6 to 45 weeks.

Of the people still waiting, half have waited under 10 weeks and 9 in 10 under 40 weeks. 67% are within 18 weeks.

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Based on the waiting-now figures for August 2026. Not a prediction of your own wait: urgency decides who is seen first.

How the wait has changed

Trauma and orthopaedics at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, 24 months to August 2026
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Shaded band: half to 9 in 10 of people treated that month. Line: the median wait of people still waiting. Weeks on the left.

The numbers behind the chart
MonthTreated, half withinTreated, 9 in 10 withinWaiting now, half within
September 20247.748.911.4
October 20246.948.99.6
November 20246.553.09.5
December 20246.449.210.9
January 20256.743.911.1
February 20256.949.89.9
March 20256.147.18.2
April 20256.145.78.4
May 20256.339.89.2
June 20256.243.99.2
July 20256.040.69.5
August 20256.447.58.9
September 20255.843.78.9
October 20255.544.79.7
November 20255.547.810.4
December 20254.441.912.5
January 20265.244.013.6
February 20265.747.112.6
March 20267.047.49.9
April 20265.942.610.2
May 20265.941.910.7
June 20266.341.89.7
July 20265.845.410.4
August 20266.045.19.7

NHS England figures, . Checked for new figures . About the data.

This page as JSON. Trauma and orthopaedics waiting times at every hospital in England.

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