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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Prescot, L34 1PJ · Compare with another trust

At a glance

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

Waiting times
Meets NHS standard
100.0% within 18 weeks · standard 92% · About this data
A&E
Meets NHS standard
98.0% within 4 hours · standard 95% · About this data
Cancer
No data
No data · About this data
Diagnostics
No data
No data · About this data
Mortality (SHMI)
No data
No data · About this data

In plain English

AI-generated

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust reported 14,415 A&E attendances in September 2026. Of these patients, 98% were dealt with within four hours, and zero waited over 12 hours after a decision to admit. Additionally, 66.7% of staff in the 2025 NHS Staff Survey said they would be happy for a friend or relative to be treated there.

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

Trust performance

A&E patients seen within 4 hours
98.0%
National median: 73.3%
▼ 0.2 pts vs yr agoBetter than 95% of trustsData: Sep 2026
A&E attendances
14,415
National median: 14,631
▲ 1,201 vs yr agoData: Sep 2026
12-hour trolley waits
0
National median: 228
Better than 83% of trustsData: Sep 2026

A&E performance

Latest month: September 2026 · all A&E department types combined — the official headline basis.

A&E attendances
14,415
All department types · latest month
Seen within 4 hours
98.0%
All department types · NHS standard: 95%
Waited over 12 hours
0
From decision-to-admit ('trolley waits')
Emergency admissions
63
All department types · latest month

This trust does not run a separate major (Type 1) A&E department — the figures above are for its minor-injury unit(s) or urgent treatment centre(s) — Type 3 in NHS England’s classification.

Department typeAttendancesWithin 4 hours
All types (official headline)14,41598.0%
Type 3 — minor injury / UTC14,41598.0%

Source: NHS England A&E Attendances & Emergency Admissions. 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
66.7%
Agreed · 2025 NHS Staff Survey▼ 1.7 pts vs 2024Median English trust: 63.9%
Staff engagement
6.99
out of 10 · 2025
Would recommend as a place to work
58.6%
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

Waiting times by specialty

Data: March 2026 · Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics (incomplete pathways)

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Other - Mental Healths53100.0%2.5 wks5.6 wks000

Figures come from NHS England's official monthly statistics and the CQC directory, reproduced under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See methodology for definitions.