Compare Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Medefer

Put up to three hospitals or providers side by side, for one specialty or for all of them. Figures for patients waiting at the end of August 2026.

First provider Second provider Third provider (optional) Specialty

Median wait by specialty

Median waits by specialty compared
Specialty	Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust	Medefer	England
General surgery	12.1	–	12.8
Urology	10.2	–	12.2
Orthopaedics	11.4	–	13.9
Ear, nose and throat	13.1	2.8*	15.4
Ophthalmology (eyes)	11.4	–	10.4
Oral surgery	19.1	–	16.4
Plastic surgery	7.7	–	14.0
General medicine	3.6	–	10.2
Gastroenterology	8.5	6.3 (shortest)	11.0
Cardiology (heart)	8.3	–	11.9
Dermatology (skin)	9.9	–	10.5
Respiratory medicine	9.2	–	10.4
Rheumatology	10.0	10.0 (shortest)	10.9
Elderly medicine	6.2	–	7.6
Gynaecology	12.7	–	14.2
Other medical specialties	10.7	6.5 (shortest)	10.7
Other surgical specialties	12.6	–	11.4
Other services	9.1	–	8.7
All specialties	11.4	7.6 (shortest)	12.2

Median wait in weeks. The shortest in each row is marked in bold; * means fewer than 50 patients waiting, so not compared. Choose a specialty to see a trend chart.