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Gastroenterology waiting times at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 3,335 people were on the Gastroenterology at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (62%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
3,335
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
62.3%
England: 69.3%
Over 52 weeks
38
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

38 people (1.1%, roughly 1 in 91) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 7 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 5.8% of everyone waiting at Epsom and St Helier 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 improved by 7.9 percentage points (54% to 62%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 6 points over 3 months (56.3% in March 2026); up 8.9 points over 6 months (53.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.9 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 202554.4%
August 202555%
September 202556.6%
October 202557.9%
November 202557.2%
December 202553.4%
January 202652.4%
February 202650.7%
March 202656.3%
April 202661.7%
May 202660.3%
June 202662.3%

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 Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20254,28254.4%64
August 20254,43855.0%79
September 20254,44156.6%107
October 20254,62857.9%118
November 20254,51857.2%123
December 20254,55653.4%111
January 20264,56252.4%96
February 20264,59150.7%67
March 20263,93156.3%54
April 20263,57361.7%62
May 20263,29460.3%58
June 20263,33562.3%38

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
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3.2 mi2,54773%+10.7 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust3.3 mi2,58281%+18.3 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust4.9 mi2,93660%-2.1 pp
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust7.2 mi2,63874%+11.2 pp
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust7.2 mi1,79584%+21.6 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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