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Warrington Hospital

Lovely Lane, Warrington, WA5 1QG · NHS England North (Cheshire and Merseyside)

Rated Good by the CQC. Trust-wide at North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, 9 in 10 patients would recommend it. The shortest published NHS wait across this NHS trust is 6 weeks.

About this provider

Funding
NHS
Website
Telephone
01925635911
CQC provider ID
RWW
CQC location ID
RWWWH

Care Quality Commission rating

Most recent inspection: 2024-01-17.

Good 3 of 4 CQC bands

Rating at each inspection

2019-07-24Good
2019-04-15Inspected but not rated
2017-11-27Requires improvement
2015-07-10Requires improvement

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. CQC uses a four-band scale and does not issue a star rating.

What the CQC inspected

The CQC rates every service against five key questions. These are the ratings from the most recent inspection.

Safe
Good
Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
Effective
Good
Does care, treatment and support achieve good outcomes and follow the best available evidence?
Caring
Good
Do staff involve and treat people with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect?
Responsive
Good
Are services organised to meet people's needs?
Well-led
Good
Do leadership, management and governance assure high-quality care?

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30.

Specialties treated here

NHS specialties with a published waiting time at this NHS trust. Select one for how it compares across the area.

What patients said

The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend the service. Responses for May 2026. These figures are for North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust and cover all its hospitals.

Inpatient care
96%
would recommend · 1,019 responses
A&E
75%
would recommend · 1,679 responses
Outpatient appointments
94%
would recommend · 2,315 responses

NHS England Friends and Family Test, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The FFT is not a formal performance measure and response rates vary between services.

Cancer waiting times

How quickly this trust diagnoses and starts treatment for people referred with a suspicion of cancer. Data for March 2026. Targets are the NHS operational standards. No English region currently meets the 62-day standard. These figures are for North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital.

62-day treatment
82%
% starting first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral
target 85%
28-day diagnosis
81%
% told they have cancer, or that they do not, within 28 days of an urgent referral
target 75%
31-day treatment
100%
% starting first treatment within 31 days of the decision to treat
target 96%

62-day treatment by cancer type

The share of patients who began treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, for each type this trust reports. The national aim is 85%. Numbers per type are smaller, so they move more from month to month.

Cancer typeWithin 62 days
Breast100%
Lung80%
Bowel90%
Prostate51%
Gynaecological38%
Head and neck92%
Lymphoma82%
Oesophagus and stomach100%
Liver and bile duct100%
Other urological100%
Other blood100%

NHS England Cancer Waiting Times, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. Provisional monthly data. Small numbers of patients can move a percentage sharply.

Mortality (SHMI)

The Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator compares the number of people who die after care at this trust with the number expected, given how ill the patients were. Rolling 12 months to August 2025. This figure is for North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital.

As expected SHMI 1.021.00 = as expected

NHS Digital, Accredited Official Statistic, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The SHMI is not a measure of the quality of care and a “higher than expected” band is a flag for further investigation, not a judgement. It must not be used to rank trusts. It does not include deaths of patients receiving palliative care where that is coded.

NHS waiting times, trust-wide

Waiting times are reported by NHS trusts, not by individual hospitals. These figures are for North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital along with its other sites. Waits at this site may differ.

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment, latest published month.
SpecialtyMedian waitWithin 18 weeksPatients waiting
All specialties12 wks65%34,815
Cardiology10 wks74%1,785
Ear, nose and throat15 wks57%3,440
Elderly medicine14 wks62%385
Gastroenterology9 wks78%2,881
General internal medicine6 wks100%63
General surgery7 wks80%808
Gynaecology12 wks65%3,582
Ophthalmology8 wks88%2,349
Other medical services15 wks58%3,328
Other services20 wks45%628
Other surgical services14 wks60%5,659
Paediatric services9 wks73%2,018
Respiratory medicine10 wks72%1,092
Rheumatology17 wks52%1,220
Trauma and orthopaedics17 wks51%3,453
Urology11 wks71%2,124

NHS-funded care only. Does not reflect private appointment availability. Retrieved 2026-08-30.

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Data shown with the date it was retrieved. Waiting times are NHS statistics for the named provider and change every month. How we source and check this.