NHS Wait Helper

Hospital service waiting times

Gastroenterology waiting times at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 14,113 people were on the Gastroenterology at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (57%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
14,113
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
56.6%
England: 69.7%
Over 52 weeks
332
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

332 people (2.4%, roughly 1 in 42) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 13.1 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 10.3% of everyone waiting at Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Gastroenterology at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 56.6% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 57.3% 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
56.6%
3 months earlier · May 2026
55.5% then · change to latest +1.1 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
52.2% then · change to latest +4.4 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
57.3% then · change to latest -0.7 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
56.4% then · change to latest +0.2 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202656.6%14,113
July 202655.8%13,966
June 202654.4%13,661
May 202655.5%13,797
April 202654.3%13,380
March 202656.1%13,139
February 202652.2%14,187
January 202650.6%14,442
December 202552.4%14,828
November 202554.4%14,576
October 202556.9%14,008
September 202558.2%13,630
August 202557.3%12,581
July 202557.9%12,081
June 202559%12,242
May 202560.8%12,426
April 202559.9%12,136
March 202560.9%11,962
February 202562.7%11,540
January 202562.1%11,602
December 202460.6%11,311
November 202460.2%11,639
October 202459%11,652
September 202458.6%11,497
August 202458.5%11,948
July 202458.9%11,707
June 202458.8%11,505
May 202458.8%11,475
April 202456.4%11,303
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 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
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust4.3 mi7,83975%+18.1 pp
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust6.3 mi1,32293%+35.9 pp
Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust10.4 mi1,03291%+34.4 pp
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust10.7 mi3,14065%+8.7 pp
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust13.5 mi4,52854%-2.8 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.

Related guides on this site

Related pages

All hospitals