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Gastroenterology waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 9,529 people were on the Gastroenterology at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (53%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
9,529
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
53.4%
England: 69.3%
Over 52 weeks
431
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

431 people (4.5%, roughly 1 in 22) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 15.9 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 5.8% 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 improved by 4.6 percentage points (49% to 53%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 2.5 points over 3 months (50.9% in March 2026); up 7.7 points over 6 months (45.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +4.6 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 202548.8%
August 202550%
September 202549.8%
October 202549.5%
November 202547.1%
December 202545.7%
January 202648.3%
February 202650.1%
March 202650.9%
April 202651.2%
May 202653.1%
June 202653.4%

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 Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202510,96748.8%725
August 202511,26550.0%900
September 202511,38749.8%1,064
October 202512,08149.5%1,133
November 202512,08447.1%1,099
December 202511,34845.7%1,004
January 202611,25948.3%605
February 202610,78050.1%415
March 202610,28350.9%416
April 202610,46251.2%444
May 20269,82553.1%470
June 20269,52953.4%431

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
Medway NHS Foundation Trust13.6 mi2,67162%+8.5 pp
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust20.2 mi2,32865%+12 pp
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust21.3 mi3,04167%+13.6 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust21.9 mi4,09878%+24.9 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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