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Gastroenterology waiting times at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,526 people were on the Gastroenterology at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
4,526
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
65.7%
England: 69.7%
Over 52 weeks
53
Median wait
13 wks
Published median for this list

53 people (1.2%, roughly 1 in 83) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

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 8.8% of everyone waiting at Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

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

18-week performance improved

Published 18-week performance for Gastroenterology at this organisation has improved over the past 12 months: 65.7% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 57.9% 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
65.7%
3 months earlier · May 2026
68.9% then · change to latest -3.2 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
69.9% then · change to latest -4.2 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
57.9% then · change to latest +7.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
59.6% then · change to latest +6.1 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202665.7%4,526
July 202667.3%4,444
June 202669.7%4,340
May 202668.9%4,355
April 202671.1%4,034
March 202671.7%3,695
February 202669.9%3,550
January 202666.7%3,566
December 202563.4%3,589
November 202565.4%3,577
October 202564.3%3,850
September 202558.8%4,048
August 202557.9%4,155
July 202552.3%4,287
June 202552.9%4,085
May 202554.5%4,031
April 202555.2%4,181
March 202555.4%4,134
February 202555.7%3,958
January 202559.2%3,946
December 202466.6%3,690
November 202467.1%3,580
October 202469.1%3,455
September 202467.2%2,916
August 202461.7%2,838
July 202461.1%2,833
June 202460.2%2,785
May 202461.8%2,880
April 202459.6%2,832
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
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust11.2 mi3,49166%+0.7 pp
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust12 mi2,25779%+12.8 pp
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust14.3 mi2,75170%+4.7 pp
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust14.5 mi3,07160%-5.7 pp
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust17.3 mi6,33965%-0.3 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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