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Gastroenterology waiting times at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 6,656 people were on the Gastroenterology at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 7 in 10 people (66%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
6,656
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
66.2%
England: 69.3%
Over 52 weeks
0
Median wait
13 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 7.1% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust.

How this has changed

Between July 2025 and June 2026 the share of people on this list waiting under 18 weeks improved by 9 percentage points (57% to 66%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: up 3.5 points over 3 months (62.7% in March 2026); up 5.8 points over 6 months (60.4% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +9 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 202557.2%
August 202556.4%
September 202558.1%
October 202559.4%
November 202559.5%
December 202560.4%
January 202660.7%
February 202660.5%
March 202662.7%
April 202664.4%
May 202665.7%
June 202666.2%

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 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20257,17557.2%56
August 20257,06956.4%33
September 20257,36858.1%11
October 20257,31359.4%8
November 20257,26959.5%9
December 20257,06260.4%2
January 20267,00860.7%3
February 20267,04760.5%2
March 20266,56362.7%1
April 20266,60064.4%0
May 20266,88865.7%1
June 20266,65666.2%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
Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust2.7 mi2,17050%-16.4 pp
The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust8.1 mi2,26265%-0.8 pp
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust9.3 mi95693%+26.9 pp
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust12.1 mi3,88764%-2.2 pp
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust18.8 mi1,76073%+7 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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