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

At the end of August 2026, 624 people were on the General medicine at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 4 in 10 people (35%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
624
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
35.4%
England: 72.3%
Over 52 weeks
38
Median wait
25 wks
Published median for this list

38 people (6.1%, roughly 1 in 16) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 36.9 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 0.7% of everyone waiting at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

General medicine, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance deteriorated

Published 18-week performance for General medicine at this organisation has deteriorated over the past 12 months: 35.4% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 59.4% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
35.4%
3 months earlier · May 2026
55.3% then · change to latest -19.9 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
58% then · change to latest -22.6 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
59.4% then · change to latest -24 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
56.8% then · change to latest -21.4 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202635.4%624
July 202642.5%645
June 202653.9%811
May 202655.3%830
April 202656.8%807
March 202661.2%796
February 202658%700
January 202652.4%660
December 202553.8%623
November 202554.4%555
October 202560.6%597
September 202561.1%558
August 202559.4%515
July 202565.2%486
June 202571.7%417
May 202579.3%381
April 202573%400
March 202575.5%392
February 202583%364
January 202586.2%369
December 202488.1%378
November 202489.4%331
October 202489.2%288
September 202486.7%255
August 202479.7%281
July 202465.7%341
June 202466.4%298
May 202456.1%328
April 202456.8%368
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust23.6 mi57866%+30.5 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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