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Royal Preston Hospital

Sharoe Green Lane, Preston, PR2 9HT · CQC-registered location of Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust · 01772695300

Acute hospital - NHS non-specialist

CQC also lists a location with the same name registered to Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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Contains public sector information from the Care Quality Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

At a glance

Whether this trust meets each official NHS operational standard — not a combined score or ranking.

Waiting times
Below NHS standard
85.9% within 18 weeks · standard 92% · About this data
A&E
No data
No data · About this data
Cancer
Meets NHS standard
100.0% treated within 62 days · standard 85% · About this data
Diagnostics
Below NHS standard
9.2% waiting 6+ weeks · standard 1.0% or fewer · About this data
Mortality (SHMI)
No data
No data · About this data

In plain English

AI-generated

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust reported 3,267 patients on its waiting list in August 2026. The median wait for treatment was 6.3 weeks, with 85.9% of patients seen within 18 weeks of referral. No patients waited over 52 weeks, and 59.3% of staff would recommend the trust for treatment.

Automatically generated from the official figures on this page and checked to restate only those figures. Last generated 9 October 2026. This is a plain-English summary, not medical advice. About these summaries

Performance at a glance

Treated or seen within 18 weeks
Trust-wide
85.9%
National median: 65.8%
▼ 4.7 pts vs yr agoBetter than 92% of trustsData: Aug 2026
Typical (median) wait
Trust-wide
6.3 wks
National median: 12.2 wks
▲ 3.0 wks vs yr agoBetter than 94% of trustsData: Aug 2026
Patients on the waiting list
Trust-wide
3,267
National median: 39,285
▲ 1,050 vs yr agoData: Aug 2026
Waiting over a year
Trust-wide
0
National median: 364
Better than 89% of trustsData: Aug 2026

NHS England publishes waiting-time and A&E figures per trust, not per building — figures marked Trust-wide cover all of Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust, not this site alone.

Performance over time

Trust-wide (Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust) · hover a month for the exact figure · monthly data table

Total waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
2,0004,000Apr 21Jan 22Jan 24Jan 25Jan 263,2672,724April 20213,228May 20213,191June 20213,926July 20214,130August 20214,612September 20214,411October 20214,119November 20214,151December 20213,811January 20223,302February 20223,246March 20221,459April 20231,911May 20231,994June 20232,074July 20232,180August 20232,109September 20231,970October 20231,632November 20231,611December 20231,461January 20241,288February 20241,212March 20241,166April 20241,371May 20241,544June 20241,559July 20241,435August 20241,688September 20241,514October 20242,285November 20242,672December 20242,858January 20252,696February 20253,019March 20252,881April 20252,451May 20252,197June 20252,356July 20252,217August 20252,513September 20252,927October 20253,216November 20253,450December 20253,592January 20263,628February 20264,033March 20263,816April 20264,141May 20264,222June 20264,634July 20263,267August 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the waiting list
85%90%95%100%Apr 21Jan 22Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%85.9%99.7%April 202199.7%May 202199.6%June 202198.8%July 202198.8%August 202198.3%September 202195.4%October 202190.9%November 202188.4%December 202186.2%January 202286.4%February 202288.7%March 202293.8%April 202391.7%May 202392.1%June 202392.4%July 202388.6%August 202387.2%September 202387.0%October 202391.5%November 202392.3%December 202392.9%January 202491.9%February 202491.9%March 202492.7%April 202495.5%May 202498.6%June 202497.6%July 202494.5%August 202493.7%September 202498.6%October 202499.4%November 202498.2%December 202497.1%January 202597.4%February 202597.4%March 202597.6%April 202591.4%May 202592.6%June 202592.3%July 202590.6%August 202592.9%September 202595.7%October 202596.9%November 202595.9%December 202595.4%January 202695.1%February 202694.2%March 202694.5%April 202693.7%May 202690.4%June 202683.9%July 202685.9%August 2026

Cancer waiting times

Trust-wide (Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: November 2025.

Faster diagnosis (28 days)
100.0%
2 of 2 treated in time
Target 75% · meets target
Treatment within 62 days
100.0%
1 of 1 treated in time
Target 85% · meets target
Treatment within 31 days
100.0%
1 of 1 treated in time
Target 96% · meets target

Source: NHS England Cancer Waiting Times. The 62-day standard is urgent referral to first treatment; the 28-day faster-diagnosis standard is referral to diagnosis or ruling-out. About this data

Staff experience (NHS Staff Survey)

2025 · the views of staff who work at this trust — a measure of workforce culture, morale and confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes. There is no official NHS target for these figures, so they are shown as context, never a pass or fail.

Staff happy for a friend or relative to be treated here
59.3%
Agreed · 2025 NHS Staff Survey▼ 3.1 pts vs 2024Median English trust: 63.9%
Staff engagement
6.80
out of 10 · 2025
Would recommend as a place to work
59.1%
Agreed · 2025

The NHS Staff Survey records the views of staff who chose to respond — a measure of workforce culture, morale and staff confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes or safety. Response rates vary between trusts. England only; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run separate staff surveys on a different basis, so these figures are never compared across nations.

Source: NHS Staff Survey (NHS England), Open Government Licence. About this data

Diagnostic test waits

Trust-wide (Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: August 2026. The operational standard is that under 1% should wait more than 6 weeks.

Waiting 6+ weeks for a test
9.2%
of 327 patients on the diagnostic waiting list
TestWaiting list6+ weeks6+ weeks (count)13+ weeks
MRI2539.5%245
Ultrasound596.8%40
Waiting 6+ weeks for a diagnostic test
All tests combined
0%10%20%30%Apr 25Jan 269.2%17.0%April 202516.8%May 202531.8%June 202520.0%July 202521.9%August 20256.2%September 202511.0%October 202522.9%November 202521.0%December 20256.1%January 202624.1%February 20262.8%March 202614.4%April 202612.6%May 20265.3%June 202616.3%July 20269.2%August 2026

Source: NHS England Diagnostic Waiting Times & Activity (DM01). About this data

Waiting times by specialty

Trust-wide (Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust) · Data: August 2026 · Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic2,77887.1%6.2 wks21.1 wks000
Rheumatology48979.1%7.9 wks21.8 wks000

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About this data

Every figure on this page comes from an official publication: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics, NHS England A&E statistics, and the Care Quality Commission directory. Data periods are shown against each figure — NHS England publishes with a lag of around six weeks. Read the full methodology.