Southport and Formby District General Hospital

Town Lane, Southport, PR8 6PN · Run by Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

CQC: Requires improvement

CQC rating published 29 November 2019 — this rating applies to this specific location. About CQC ratings

Performance at a glance

Treated or seen within 18 weeks

Trust-wide

67.2%

Better than 59% of trustsData: May 2026

Typical (median) wait

Trust-wide

12.2 wks

Better than 54% of trustsData: May 2026

Patients on the waiting list

Trust-wide

80,142

Data: May 2026

Waiting over a year

Trust-wide

1,343

Better than 12% of trustsData: May 2026

A&E patients seen within 4 hours

Trust-wide

72.5%

Better than 42% of trustsData: Jun 2026

A&E attendances

Trust-wide

25,244

Data: Jun 2026

12-hour trolley waits

Trust-wide

403

Better than 36% of trustsData: Jun 2026

NHS England publishes waiting-time and A&E figures per trust, not per building — figures marked Trust-wide cover all hospitals run by Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Waiting times by specialty

Trust-wide (Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust) · Data: May 2026 · Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics

Specialty	Waiting	Within 18 wks	Median wait	52+ wks
Plastic Surgery	7,803	56.5%	15.4 wks	171
Trauma and Orthopaedic	7,599	68.3%	10.7 wks	123
Dermatology	7,570	53.7%	16.4 wks	423
Gastroenterology	7,553	78.9%	10.6 wks	20
Other - Medicals	7,512	68.2%	11.6 wks	89
Ear Nose and Throat	6,626	66.9%	13.2 wks	92
General Surgery	6,579	64.8%	13.0 wks	150
Urology	5,827	67.3%	12.4 wks	94
Gynaecology	5,520	69.0%	12.1 wks	57
Ophthalmology	3,477	73.8%	11.1 wks	12
Other - Paediatrics	2,883	88.9%	6.2 wks	2
Cardiology	2,847	74.7%	11.8 wks	0
Other - Surgicals	2,639	55.4%	15.5 wks	52
Oral Surgery	2,116	57.8%	15.1 wks	23
Rheumatology	1,430	65.0%	13.5 wks	33
Respiratory Medicine	1,157	83.4%	10.0 wks	0
General Internal Medicine	361	87.8%	5.7 wks	0
Elderly Medicine	348	80.5%	8.7 wks	0
Other - Others	245	88.2%	6.8 wks	1
Neurosurgical	50	54.0%	17.3 wks	1

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.