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Neurology waiting times at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 5,774 people were on the Neurology at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (54%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
5,774
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
53.9%
England: 62.3%
Over 52 weeks
80
Median wait
17 wks
Published median for this list

80 people (1.4%, roughly 1 in 71) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 8.4 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 3.5% of everyone waiting at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Neurology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 53.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 48.6% 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
53.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
50.5% then · change to latest +3.4 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
48.9% then · change to latest +5 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
48.6% then · change to latest +5.3 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
50.2% then · change to latest +3.7 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202653.9%5,774
July 202655.2%5,525
June 202653.3%5,637
May 202650.5%5,640
April 202644.7%6,127
March 202648.5%5,801
February 202648.9%5,808
January 202649.3%5,988
December 202547.9%6,149
November 202549.5%6,392
October 202544.3%5,380
September 202549.1%6,077
August 202548.6%6,006
July 202546%6,089
June 202546%6,245
May 202544.4%6,217
April 202540%6,010
March 202546.4%6,165
February 202549.4%5,981
January 202549.3%5,961
December 202450.7%5,952
November 202453.3%5,762
October 202449.1%5,988
September 202447.3%5,722
August 202446.5%5,393
July 202451.7%5,415
June 202449.8%5,580
May 202449.4%5,598
April 202450.2%5,563
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 neurology 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 Neurology
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Medway NHS Foundation Trust13.6 mi1,94931%-22.7 pp
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust20.2 mi1,27566%+12.2 pp
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust21.3 mi1,99163%+8.8 pp
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust21.9 mi2,95463%+9.1 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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