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General medicine waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 2,312 people were on the General medicine at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (64%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · General medicine across England

People waiting
2,312
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
64.0%
England: 72.3%
Over 52 weeks
47
Median wait
12 wks
Published median for this list

47 people (2.0%, roughly 1 in 50) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.3 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 1.4% of everyone waiting at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

General medicine, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for General medicine at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 64% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 65.5% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
64%
3 months earlier · May 2026
70.7% then · change to latest -6.7 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
64.8% then · change to latest -0.8 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
65.5% then · change to latest -1.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
69.7% then · change to latest -5.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202664%2,312
July 202663.8%2,152
June 202667.1%2,292
May 202670.7%2,446
April 202665.7%2,587
March 202667.6%2,713
February 202664.8%2,646
January 202667.1%2,535
December 202565.1%2,547
November 202560.5%2,453
October 202566.3%2,786
September 202566.2%2,714
August 202565.5%2,519
July 202561.7%2,503
June 202569.1%2,425
May 202570.3%2,393
April 202562.3%2,377
March 202565.1%2,247
February 202567.5%2,560
January 202564.4%2,329
December 202464.2%2,468
November 202466.1%2,460
October 202460.5%2,257
September 202462.5%2,270
August 202466.2%2,076
July 202471.1%1,902
June 202471.6%1,867
May 202475.3%1,700
April 202469.7%1,590
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

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
Medway NHS Foundation Trust13.6 mi9598%+33.9 pp
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust20.2 mi72468%+3.5 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust21.9 mi1688%+23.5 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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