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Gastroenterology waiting times at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,269 people were on the Gastroenterology at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 9 in 10 people (90%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
2,269
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
89.6%
England: 69.3%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
7 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 20.3 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 4.8% of everyone waiting at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 45.9 percentage points (44% to 90%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 9.8 points over 3 months (79.8% in March 2026); up 39.2 points over 6 months (50.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +45.9 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 12 published months.

View these figures as a table
Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202543.7%
August 202543%
September 202543.6%
October 202545%
November 202547.4%
December 202550.4%
January 202655.9%
February 202656.1%
March 202679.8%
April 202684.9%
May 202688.4%
June 202689.6%

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 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20255,53643.7%527
August 20255,64643.0%599
September 20255,56443.6%543
October 20255,03845.0%454
November 20254,46547.4%192
December 20254,17050.4%0
January 20264,38155.9%0
February 20263,89656.1%0
March 20262,49379.8%0
April 20262,40784.9%0
May 20262,27988.4%0
June 20262,26989.6%0

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
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi1,86946%-43.9 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust12.6 mi1,53578%-11.4 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14 mi4,41954%-35.1 pp
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust18.1 mi13,66154%-35.2 pp
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust21.2 mi7,70375%-14.9 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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