North West · NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB
A&E in Cheshire and Merseyside
11 A&E departments in the Cheshire and Merseyside NHS area, with the share of people seen within 4 hours in September 2026. England: 61%.
Within 4 hours, hospital by hospital
The share of attendances in September 2026 where the patient was admitted, transferred or sent home within 4 hours of arriving. England: 61%.
- Arrowe Park Hospital – 43%
- Countess of Chester Hospital – 51%
- Leighton Hospital – 50%
- Liverpool Women's Hospital – 90%
- Macclesfield District General Hospital – 47%
- Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital – 86%
- Royal Liverpool University Hospital – 59%
- Southport and Formby District General Hospital – 57%
- University Hospital Aintree – 42%
- Warrington Hospital – 52%
- Whiston Hospital – 58%
The list is in alphabetical order, not a ranking. This is a fact about the A&E department, not a grade or a verdict. Departments see different patients: one that admits more people, or takes the most seriously ill, will often have longer times.
The figures are for type 1 and 2 departments: major emergency departments open 24 hours, and specialist ones such as eye hospitals. Urgent treatment centres, minor injury units and walk-in centres are not included.
NHS England publishes the latest month (September 2026) as provisional and may revise it next month.
Source: NHS England, A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) tables, October 2025 to September 2026 (published 8 October 2026). Open Government Licence. NHS England publishes the hospital figures as experimental statistics, as received from hospitals, with counts rounded to the nearest 5.
NHS trusts in Cheshire and Merseyside
Each hospital is run by an NHS trust. A trust’s page has its official monthly figures for every type of A&E it runs, urgent treatment centres included.
- Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- East Cheshire NHS Trust
- Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust
- Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
More areas in North West
Data updated
The month each source’s data runs to, and when its publisher released it.
- A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions: (published 8 October 2026)
Sources
- Contains public sector information from NHS England licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0: A&E Attendances and Emergency Admissions, monthly, and its ECDS Performance tables. Contains Office for National Statistics data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.