Hospital service waiting times

General medicine waiting times at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 811 people were on the General medicine at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General medicine across England

People waiting: 811; End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks: 53.9%; England: 71.4%
Over 52 weeks: 0
Median wait: 16 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 17.5 percentage points behind 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 0.9% of everyone waiting at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 11.3 percentage points (65% to 54%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 7.3 points over 3 months (61.2% in March 2026); broadly unchanged over 6 months (53.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -11.3 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
Month	Within 18 weeks
July 2025	65.2%
August 2025	59.4%
September 2025	61.1%
October 2025	60.6%
November 2025	54.4%
December 2025	53.8%
January 2026	52.4%
February 2026	58%
March 2026	61.2%
April 2026	56.8%
May 2026	55.3%
June 2026	53.9%

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 General medicine figures at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Month	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Over 52 weeks
July 2025	486	65.2%	2
August 2025	515	59.4%	3
September 2025	558	61.1%	2
October 2025	597	60.6%	0
November 2025	555	54.4%	0
December 2025	623	53.8%	0
January 2026	660	52.4%	4
February 2026	700	58.0%	1
March 2026	796	61.2%	1
April 2026	807	56.8%	0
May 2026	830	55.3%	0
June 2026	811	53.9%	0

Other NHS trusts offering general medicine 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 General medicine
Trust	Distance	Waiting	Under 18 weeks	Difference
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust	23.6 mi	640	75%	+21.3 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.

Related guides on this site

Work out how long you've waited
Explains how the 18-week measure is counted and what a published percentage represents.
How to switch hospitals for faster NHS treatment
Reference article on how hospital switching works within the NHS.
NHS patient choice explained
Background on the legal basis of NHS patient choice.
What happens after 52 weeks on a waiting list
Background on how year-plus waits are treated in NHS reporting.
How to use PALS about a waiting list
Reference article explaining what a Patient Advice and Liaison Service does.

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