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Cardiology waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 10,250 people were on the Cardiology at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (67%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Cardiology across England

People waiting
10,250
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
66.8%
England: 68.2%
Over 52 weeks
90
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

90 people (0.9%, roughly 1 in 111) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture 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 6.2% of everyone waiting at Mid and South 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 5.4 percentage points (72% to 67%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 3.9 points over 3 months (70.7% in March 2026); down 5.1 points over 6 months (71.9% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -5.4 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 202572.2%
August 202573.2%
September 202573.6%
October 202570.6%
November 202571.1%
December 202571.9%
January 202671.5%
February 202671.4%
March 202670.7%
April 202669.8%
May 202669.9%
June 202666.8%

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 Cardiology figures at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20259,23372.2%9
August 20259,85173.2%12
September 202510,35673.6%17
October 202510,27870.6%7
November 202510,93571.1%14
December 202511,01371.9%17
January 202610,61871.5%77
February 202611,04371.4%35
March 202610,71270.7%29
April 202610,76169.8%42
May 202611,13169.9%51
June 202610,25066.8%90

Other NHS trusts offering cardiology 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 Cardiology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Medway NHS Foundation Trust13.6 mi3,21553%-13.4 pp
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust20.2 mi2,20243%-24 pp
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust21.3 mi2,25678%+11.3 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust21.9 mi4,42978%+10.9 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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