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Elderly medicine waiting times at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of June 2026, 259 people were on the Elderly medicine at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 8 in 10 people (81%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Elderly medicine across England

People waiting
259
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
80.7%
England: 83.1%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
11 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 broadly in line with the England picture 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 0.5% of everyone waiting at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks worsened by 5.8 percentage points (87% to 81%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 12 points over 3 months (92.7% in March 2026); up 10.9 points over 6 months (69.8% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Getting longer · -5.8 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 202586.5%
August 202590.3%
September 202580.4%
October 202578.8%
November 202574%
December 202569.8%
January 202668.4%
February 202689.6%
March 202692.7%
April 202683.1%
May 202683%
June 202680.7%

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 Elderly medicine figures at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 202522286.5%0
August 202522690.3%0
September 202520980.4%0
October 202522678.8%0
November 202521974.0%0
December 202525269.8%1
January 202625668.4%0
February 202621289.6%0
March 202619292.7%0
April 202619583.1%0
May 202622383.0%0
June 202625980.7%0

Other NHS trusts offering elderly 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 Elderly medicine
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust11.2 mi22264%-16.7 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust12 mi18597%+16.6 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.3 mi51100%+19.3 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust14.5 mi7100%+19.3 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust17.3 mi33098%+17.8 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.

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