The Walton Centre: all the key numbers for the NHS Trust in July

Almost 15,000 patients were waiting for routine treatment at the Walton Centre in July, figures show.

The shadow health secretary has branded the Prime Minister "inaction man" over rising waiting lists.

NHS England figures show 14,237 patients were waiting for non-urgent elective operations or treatment at The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust at the end of July – up from 13,918 in June, and 11,741 in July 2022.

Of those, 60 had been waiting for longer than a year.

The median waiting time from referral at an NHS Trust to treatment at the Walton Centre was 11 weeks at the end of July – the same as in June.

Nationally, 7.7 million people were waiting to start treatment at the end of July.

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting said patients were waiting an "unacceptably long" time.

He added: "On the NHS, Rishi Sunak is Inaction Man, refusing to meet with doctors to end NHS strikes and adding to the Conservatives’ NHS backlog, leaving patients waiting for months on end in pain and agony."

Separate figures show 1.6 million patients in England were waiting for a key diagnostic test in July – the same as in June.

At the Walton Centre, 1,419 patients were waiting for one of four standard tests, such as Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurophysiology - Peripheral Neurophysiology, or Respiratory physiology - Sleep Studies at this time.

Of them, eight (1%) had been waiting for at least six weeks.