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Gastroenterology waiting times at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,098 people were on the Gastroenterology at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (78%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
4,098
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
78.3%
England: 69.3%
Over 52 weeks
26
Median wait
9 wks
Published median for this list

26 people (0.6%, roughly 1 in 167) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9 percentage points better than the England figure for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 5.9% of everyone waiting at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 17.1 percentage points (95% to 78%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.1 points over 3 months (76.2% in March 2026); down 6 points over 6 months (84.3% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -17.1 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 11 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202595.4%
August 202594.9%
September 202593.9%
October 202591.4%
December 202584.3%
January 202682.3%
February 202679.2%
March 202676.2%
April 202674.5%
May 202673.1%
June 202678.3%

Month-to-month movements of less than two percentage points are treated as normal variation rather than a real change in direction.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly Gastroenterology figures at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,56395.4%0
August 20252,66794.9%0
September 20252,88393.9%0
October 20252,31091.4%1
December 20253,98984.3%3
January 20263,99382.3%1
February 20264,27579.2%3
March 20264,00076.2%2
April 20264,31074.5%4
May 20264,26173.1%14
June 20264,09878.3%26

Other NHS trusts offering gastroenterology within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Gastroenterology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust9.8 mi1,00194%+15.6 pp
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust9.9 mi2,32865%-12.9 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust10.7 mi8,15662%-16 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust11.6 mi6,27465%-13.3 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust13.6 mi2,63874%-4.8 pp

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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