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General medicine waiting times at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 336 people were on the General medicine at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (59%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust · NHS trust · General medicine across England

People waiting
336
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
59.2%
England: 71.4%
Over 52 weeks
60
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

60 people (17.9%, roughly 1 in 6) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 12.2 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 0.6% of everyone waiting at Lewisham and Greenwich 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 8.5 percentage points (51% to 59%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 25.1 points over 3 months (34.1% in March 2026); up 22.7 points over 6 months (36.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +8.5 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 202550.7%
August 202553.9%
September 202550.3%
October 202548.4%
November 202544.1%
December 202536.5%
January 202630.7%
February 202632.8%
March 202634.1%
April 202638.8%
May 202646.3%
June 202659.2%

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 Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202560750.7%1
August 202574453.9%0
September 202570850.3%0
October 202576548.4%0
November 202575544.1%0
December 202568436.5%0
January 202670030.7%10
February 202670232.8%48
March 202667234.1%88
April 202658738.8%85
May 202644546.3%79
June 202633659.2%60

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
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust3.4 mi66991%+32 pp
Barts Health NHS Trust4.7 mi5754%-4.8 pp
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust5.3 mi35089%+29.3 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust5.9 mi11100%+40.8 pp
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust6.9 mi7971%+11.7 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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