The waiting list for one department of Liverpool University Hospitals has been cut by 60 weeks since March this year.
Across Merseyside, Halton and West Lancashire, 20 hospital departments fail to give patients their first specialist appointment within the NHS's 18-week target for starting consultant-led treatment, according to the latest data from My Planned Care.
Hospital trusts across the country submit data to My Planned Care, an NHS website where waiting times for each department at each hospital trust are displayed and updated each week. The waiting times are for elective waiting lists, not emergency or critical care, or waiting lists for cancer patients who are supposed to be seen by a specialist within two weeks of a referral.
