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East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust: NHS waiting times

At the end of August 2026, 55,478 people were on the East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust all-services waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (69%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

NHS trust · South East · ODS code RXC

People waiting (all services)
55,478
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
69.0%
England: 65.2%
Over 52 weeks
338
Services reported
15
with people currently waiting

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

Figures are for the whole organisation (trust level), not for an individual hospital site or clinic. The all-services total is the published organisation total, not a sum of the service rows.

Waiting times by service

Each row is one consultant-led service at this organisation, compared with the England figure for the same service in the same month.

Services at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
ServiceWaitingUnder 18 weeksEnglandOver 52 weeks6-month change
Orthopaedics10,20778%60.9%78+1.1 pp
Ear, nose and throat (ENT)5,26961%56.8%0+3.3 pp
Gynaecology5,20555%59.6%115+7.3 pp
General surgery4,71473%63.2%26+20.8 pp
Urology4,53455%64.8%76-2.1 pp
Cardiology4,18965%67.9%13+1.5 pp
Ophthalmology3,71680%72.2%1+4 pp
Gastroenterology3,03779%69.7%2+5 pp
Respiratory medicine2,38665%74.1%4+6.5 pp
Neurology1,93275%62.3%0+7.3 pp
Oral surgery1,83151%53.8%3+1.6 pp
Dermatology1,01194%69.0%0+12 pp
Rheumatology67689%70.4%0+2.4 pp
Elderly medicine14597%84.3%0+5 pp
General medicine1794%72.3%0-2.3 pp

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and August 2026 the share of people waiting at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust waiting under 18 weeks improved by 5.4 percentage points (64% to 69%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (67.9% in May 2026); up 5.3 points over 6 months (63.7% in February 2026); up 5.5 points over 12 months (63.5% in August 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

18-week performance improving · +5.4 points

Percentage of people seen within 18 weeks, over the last 14 published months.

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Percentage seen within 18 weeks by month
MonthWithin 18 weeks
July 202563.6%
August 202563.5%
September 202564.6%
October 202564.2%
November 202564.2%
December 202565.2%
January 202663.3%
February 202663.7%
March 202666.3%
April 202666.4%
May 202667.9%
June 202668.5%
July 202669%
August 202669%

Changes of less than 3 percentage points in the share waiting under 18 weeks are treated as broadly stable. This describes the whole waiting list, not how long any one person waits.

Month-by-month figures
Monthly all-services figures for East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202562,19063.6%861
August 202562,24963.5%834
September 202561,43964.6%728
October 202561,63664.2%705
November 202561,74964.2%778
December 202561,44365.2%729
January 202659,85363.3%682
February 202659,85363.7%598
March 202657,46766.3%463
April 202657,50766.4%426
May 202657,74667.9%425
June 202655,94568.5%369
July 202656,05169.0%352
August 202655,47869.0%338

Diagnostic tests

Tests are measured against a separate six-week standard. Figures for June 2026.

Nearby NHS trusts

Trusts within 25 miles that report waiting figures. Distances are between registered addresses, not travel time.

  • Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust · 23.8 mi4,655 waiting · 100%

Waiting times across this area

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Contact details we hold for this organisation

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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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