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Gastroenterology waiting times at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of June 2026, 4,935 people were on the Gastroenterology at University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

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

People waiting
4,935
End of June 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.5%
England: 69.3%
Over 52 weeks
48
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

48 people (1.0%, roughly 1 in 100) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is 14.7 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; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 4.2% of everyone waiting at University Hospitals Sussex 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 7.7 percentage points (47% to 55%).

Share waiting under 18 weeks: down 6.7 points over 3 months (61.2% in March 2026); up 9 points over 6 months (45.5% in December 2025).

Share seen within 18 weeks, month by month

Improving · +7.7 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 202546.8%
August 202546.3%
September 202547.5%
October 202549.6%
November 202547.7%
December 202545.5%
January 202644.5%
February 202656.2%
March 202661.2%
April 202658.2%
May 202656.6%
June 202654.5%

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 Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
MonthWaitingUnder 18 weeksOver 52 weeks
July 20256,82446.8%248
August 20257,10746.3%369
September 20257,42547.5%504
October 20257,55149.6%529
November 20257,56247.7%534
December 20257,41445.5%514
January 20267,33344.5%551
February 20265,15156.2%264
March 20264,92361.2%134
April 20264,93958.2%115
May 20264,83556.6%76
June 20264,93554.5%48

Other NHS trusts offering gastroenterology within 25 miles

No other NHS trust within 25 miles reported this service in the latest month.

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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