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Gastroenterology waiting times at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

At the end of August 2026, 4,698 people were on the Gastroenterology at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust waiting list and about 6 in 10 people (60%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust · NHS trust · Gastroenterology across England

People waiting
4,698
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
60.2%
England: 69.7%
Over 52 weeks
139
Median wait
14 wks
Published median for this list

139 people (3.0%, roughly 1 in 33) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 9.5 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 4.1% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS 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): 60.2% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 61.1% 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
60.2%
3 months earlier · May 2026
58.6% then · change to latest +1.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
55.4% then · change to latest +4.8 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
61.1% then · change to latest -0.8 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
59.6% then · change to latest +0.6 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202660.2%4,698
July 202659.6%4,655
June 202658.7%4,714
May 202658.6%4,884
April 202658.6%5,316
March 202661.9%5,340
February 202655.4%6,392
January 202657.4%6,874
December 202555.9%6,701
November 202555.8%6,498
October 202556.1%6,390
September 202557.3%6,079
August 202561.1%6,215
July 202562%5,964
June 202564.2%5,857
May 202570.2%5,979
April 202569.5%6,695
March 202562.3%7,225
February 202561.3%7,788
January 202561.3%8,280
December 202462.4%9,159
November 202464.2%8,964
October 202461.9%8,619
September 202459.9%8,608
August 202462.2%8,620
July 202461.5%8,199
June 202459.7%7,892
May 202461.7%8,120
April 202459.6%8,431
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
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust16.4 mi1,16776%+15.4 pp
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust19.1 mi1,22876%+15.6 pp
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust22 mi4,19251%-9.4 pp
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust22.7 mi1,25575%+14.4 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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