NHS Wait Helper

Diagnostic test waiting times

Colonoscopy waiting times in England

At the end of June 2026, 79,140 people in England were waiting for a colonoscopy; 32.0% had waited more than six weeks and 15.1% more than 13 weeks. NHS England publishes these figures against a six-week measure.

A camera examination of the whole large bowel. NHS England reports it as Colonoscopy.

People waiting
79,140
End of June 2026
Waiting over 6 weeks
32.0%
NHS England reports this test against a six-week measure
Waiting over 13 weeks
11,982
Share of all test waits
4.1%
of the 15 reported tests

How this has changed

In April 2025, 26.7% of people waiting for this test had waited over six weeks; in June 2026 it was 32%. The number of providers reporting can change between months, so small moves should not be over-read.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Colonoscopy figures for England
MonthWaitingOver 6 weeksProviders
April 202567,02026.7%232
May 202567,48526.8%229
June 202566,93926.9%227
July 202568,89027.3%227
August 202567,92930.0%229
September 202568,48628.7%228
October 202571,60526.9%230
November 202569,11930.5%228
December 202571,26532.8%227
January 202674,26033.1%224
February 202676,23229.6%226
March 202678,42728.8%229
April 202681,48931.9%225
May 202680,16232.1%224
June 202679,14032.0%226

How much trusts differ

  • 1% or less over 6 weeks12 trusts
  • 1% to 10%34 trusts
  • 10% to 25%30 trusts
  • Over 25%43 trusts

NHS trusts by share waiting over six weeks

Trusts with at least 100 people waiting for this test, most recent month, lowest share over six weeks first.

NHS trusts reporting Colonoscopy waits
TrustWaitingOver 6 weeksOver 13 weeks
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust2460.0%0
Whittington Health NHS Trust1860.0%0
East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust3230.0%0
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust5530.0%0
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust2220.5%0
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust4280.5%1
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust5090.6%0
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2790.7%0
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2690.7%0
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust2530.8%0
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust2210.9%0
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust9191.0%1
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust1901.1%0
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3671.1%0
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust4901.2%0
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1601.3%0
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust7101.8%0
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust9062.2%8
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1,1042.3%2
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3322.4%0
Medway NHS Foundation Trust1972.5%1
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust2852.5%2
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust2693.3%1
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust1533.9%2
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust3484.0%0
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust3814.5%2
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust2894.5%4
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust1914.7%0
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust3734.8%0
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust8745.4%29
Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2145.6%0
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust5316.4%0
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2086.7%3
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust1446.9%4
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1847.1%2
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust3437.3%5
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust6107.5%5
North Bristol NHS Trust6017.5%0
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust2807.9%3
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust2988.1%10
Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust4818.3%3
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust5469.0%14
West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust6809.4%1
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust5279.5%15
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust2639.9%5
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust6279.9%11
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust36610.1%15
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust26410.2%8
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust30511.1%2
University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust26811.9%9
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust31812.6%1
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust62813.1%0
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust84513.3%7
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust49913.6%22
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust17714.7%2
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust43614.9%3
North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust40815.0%8
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust63615.4%9
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust29815.8%24
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust34516.5%20
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust38817.3%13
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust16818.5%3
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust1,11618.6%6
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust38119.2%13
East Cheshire NHS Trust24919.3%7
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust34519.7%9
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust32520.0%35
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust46820.7%10
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust71121.4%11
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust64921.6%9
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust44021.8%4
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust77622.2%59
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust25823.3%2
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust1,16723.4%53
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust98723.8%8
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust33724.9%15
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust26325.1%2
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust31725.6%23
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust23425.6%25
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust38427.3%27
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust39228.1%12
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust65928.4%16
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust45430.2%26
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust80333.7%88
Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust65034.5%64
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust1,00134.8%161
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust79835.5%45
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust53235.7%56
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust33035.8%26
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust84236.1%46
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust1,50436.4%255
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust54236.7%39
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust25236.9%18
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust48137.6%23
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1,15739.4%128
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust81341.0%89
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust1,11941.6%132
North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust1,00542.3%260
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust1,86543.4%306
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust1,61344.4%246
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust31144.7%37
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust93546.3%208
Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust46847.6%140
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust93648.7%177
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust2,29149.8%552
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust42552.5%104
Wye Valley NHS Trust29352.9%40
Barts Health NHS Trust2,48656.0%556
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust57356.7%166
Isle of Wight NHS Trust28957.1%61
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust67557.3%216
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust1,33459.1%421
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust2,89959.6%1,280
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust2,11462.1%1,014
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust68762.6%227
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust97864.2%438
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust2,45867.6%1,257
Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust1,49576.7%888
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust1,59179.7%1,118

What this measure includes

  • People recorded as waiting for one of the 15 diagnostic tests and procedures covered by NHS England's monthly diagnostics collection.
  • These figures relate to the wait for the diagnostic test or procedure covered by this dataset. They do not tell you how long your overall NHS pathway will take.

A separate collection from the 18-week figures

The monthly diagnostics collection is published separately from the consultant-led referral-to-treatment collection. They count different things and are not added together, so a diagnostic figure on this page does not describe any referral-to-treatment position.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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