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Gastroenterology waiting times at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 2,170 people were on the Gastroenterology at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (50%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
2,170
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
49.8%
England: 69.3%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
19 wks
Published median for this list

No one on this list had been waiting more than 52 weeks in June 2026.

This hospital's published position is 19.5 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 3.3% of everyone waiting at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks stayed broadly stable (51% to 50%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: broadly unchanged over 3 months (51.7% in March 2026); up 11.1 points over 6 months (38.7% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Broadly stable · -1.1 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 202550.9%
August 202548.2%
September 202549.3%
October 202548.3%
November 202539.5%
December 202538.7%
January 202634.9%
February 202635.5%
March 202651.7%
April 202651.6%
May 202649.6%
June 202649.8%

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 Gastroenterology figures at Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20252,85550.9%17
August 20253,00748.2%34
September 20252,83349.3%23
October 20252,72848.3%23
November 20253,05139.5%24
December 20253,05238.7%36
January 20262,56234.9%25
February 20262,57235.5%15
March 20262,80951.7%8
April 20262,66351.6%31
May 20262,37749.6%28
June 20262,17049.8%0

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
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust2.7 mi6,65666%+16.4 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust6.6 mi95693%+43.3 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust7.1 mi2,26265%+15.6 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust9.7 mi3,88764%+14.2 pp
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust19.9 mi1,16874%+24.2 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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