At 8am on Saturday, a sign was put up in the emergency department advising attendees of the severe delay.
This raised concerns among residents about whether healthcare services in the town are keeping up with popular growth and demands.
Graham Gowland, independent councillor for Lymm South, shared the 14-hour wait on Facebook after he attended A&E himself.
He said: “Knowing people have different care options available to them, I thought it was worth putting out a quick informative post so residents could consider some of the local walk-in centres, which at that time of the morning were showing little or no waiting time.”
Hundreds of people took to Cllr Gowland’s Facebook to share their own experiences of lengthy waits at Warrington Hospital – with some over 24 hours.
Again, this has led to debates of the town needing a walk-in centre.
Cllr Gowland said: “The frustration isn’t with the people delivering care.
“It’s with a system that many residents feel is struggling to keep up with demand.”
Responding to the 14-hour waiting times, Daniel Moore, chief operating officer and deputy chief executive at North Cheshire and Mersey, said: “Our staff work exceptionally hard to ensure all patients receive high quality, safe care and we are sorry to any patients that have experienced a longer than expected waiting time.
“Our emergency department continues to experience high demand and we recognise that ongoing challenges across the whole health and care system create pressure on our capacity.”
Mr Moore has said the trust is working closely with partners to tackle demand and has encouraged the public to consider their options if they require urgent medical help when it is not an emergency.
He said: “We are working closely with health and social care partners to ensure people receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time and to support patients to get home, where they are medically fit to do so, to free up beds for urgent patients arriving in our Emergency Department.
“We would encourage the public to consider their options if they require urgent medical help when it is not an emergency.
“Alternative options include following advice from NHS 111, visiting a local pharmacy for help with minor ailments, contacting your GP and using Urgent Treatment Centres at Halton and Widnes for conditions that require urgent treatment but are not life-threatening.”
Last July, it was revealed that patients at Warrington Hospital’s A&E experienced some of the worst waits in the country.
The data revealed that in June 2025, Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals (WHH) had the highest proportion of patients who waited more than 12 hours from arrival at A&E to admission, transfer or discharge – which was a total of 24 per cent.